comma

CEFRB1

/ˈkɒmə/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A punctuation mark used to separate parts of a sentence.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.

Examples

  • He looked at me with consternation, saying that he must put a comma somewhere.

  • In another paragraph, he put in a comma.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2
Synonyms
2

Also pronounced

  • [ˈkɑ.mə ~ ˈkɑ.mʌ]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.

  2. The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.

  3. A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.

More examples

In context

  • No points were used by the ancient printers, excepting the colon and the period; but, after some time, a short oblique stroke, called a virgil, was introduced, which answered to the modern comma. In the fifteenth century this punctuation was improved by the f...

  • Other members of this genus that are frequently encountered in the park are the eastern comma (P. comma) and question mark (P. interrogationis).

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma), from κόπτω (kóptō, “to cut”).