"quotation dash" meaning in All languages combined

See quotation dash on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: quotation dashes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} quotation dash (plural quotation dashes)
  1. A dash used to introduce a line of dialogue. Categories (topical): Punctuation marks Translations (a dash used to introduce a line of dialogue): párbeszédjel (Hungarian), talstreck [neuter] (Swedish), pratminus [informal, neuter] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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