"semicolon" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌsɛmiˈkəʊlən/ [UK], /-ˈkəʊlɒn/ [UK], /ˈsɛmikoʊlən/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-semicolon.wav [Southern-England] Forms: semicolons [plural], semicola [plural]
Etymology: From semi- + colon. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|semi|colon}} semi- + colon Head templates: {{en-noun|s|semicola}} semicolon (plural semicolons or semicola)
  1. The punctuation mark ;. Wikipedia link: semicolon Categories (topical): Punctuation marks, Typography Synonyms: semi-colon Derived forms: semicolon butterfly Translations (punctuation mark ';'): pikëpresje [feminine] (Albanian), فَاصِلَة مَنْقُوطَة (fāṣila manqūṭa) [feminine] (Arabic), ؛ [symbol] (Arabic), կետ-ստորակետ (ket-storaket) (Armenian), puntu y coma [masculine] (Asturian), nöqtəli vergül (Azerbaijani), нөктәле өтөр (nöktəle ötör) (Bashkir), кро́пка з ко́скай (krópka z kóskaj) [feminine] (Belarusian), то́чка и запета́я (tóčka i zapetája) [feminine] (Bulgarian), punt i coma [masculine] (Catalan), 分號 (Chinese Mandarin), 分号 (fēnhào) (Chinese Mandarin), ; [symbol] (Chinese Mandarin), poynt ha komma [masculine] (Cornish), středník [masculine] (Czech), semikolon [neuter] (Danish), puntkomma [feminine, neuter] (Dutch), kommapunt [masculine] (Dutch), punktokomo (Esperanto), semikoolon (Estonian), semikolon [neuter] (Faroese), puolipiste (Finnish), point-virgule [masculine] (French), punto e coma [masculine] (Galician), წერტილმძიმე (c̣erṭilmʒime) (Georgian), წერტილ-მძიმე (c̣erṭil-mʒime) (Georgian), Strichpunkt [masculine] (German), Semikolon [neuter] (German), άνω τελεία (áno teleía) [feminine] (Greek), ερωτηματικό (erotimatikó) (note: in relevance to the Greek language) [neuter] (Greek), נקודה ופסיק \ נְקֻדָּה וּפְסִיק (n'kudá uf'sík) [masculine] (Hebrew), अर्धविराम (ardhavirām) [masculine] (Hindi), सेमीकोलन (semīkolan) (Hindi), pontosvessző (Hungarian), puntokomo (Ido), puncto e virgula (Interlingua), leathstad [masculine] (Irish), leathstadanna [masculine, plural] (Irish), punto e virgola [masculine] (Italian), セミコロン (semikoron) (Japanese), ; [symbol] (Japanese), нүктелі үтір (nüktelı ütır) (Kazakh), 쌍반점 (ssangbanjeom) (alt: 雙半點) (Korean), 세미콜론 (semikollon) (Korean), үтүрдүү чекит (ütürdüü cekit) (Kyrgyz), semikols [masculine] (Latvian), kabliataškis [masculine] (Lithuanian), точка-запирка (točka-zapirka) [feminine] (Macedonian), അർദ്ധവിരാമം (aṟddhavirāmaṁ) (Malayalam), kopipiko (Maori), цэгтэй таслал (cegtej taslal) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian), semikolon [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), ؛ [symbol] (Pashto), نقطهویرگول (noqte-virgul) (Persian), ؛ [symbol] (Persian), średnik [masculine] (Polish), ponto e vírgula (Portuguese), ponto-e-vírgula [masculine] (Portuguese), ਬਿੰਦੀ ਕਾਮਾ (bindī kāmā) [masculine] (Punjabi), punct și virgulă (Romanian), то́чка с запято́й (tóčka s zapjatój) [feminine] (Russian), leth-chòilean [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), точка за зарезом [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), тачка са зепетом [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), točka sa zarezom [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), tačka sa zapetom [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), bodkočiarka [feminine] (Slovak), podpičje [neuter] (Slovene), punto y coma [masculine] (Spanish), alama ya nuktamkato (Swahili), nukta mkato (Swahili), semikolon [common-gender] (Swedish), tuldok-kuwit (Tagalog), อัฒภาค (àt-tá-pâak) (Thai), noktalı virgül (Turkish), кра́пка з ко́мою (krápka z kómoju) [feminine] (Ukrainian), сере́дник (serédnyk) [masculine] (Ukrainian), ؛ [symbol] (Urdu), nuqtali vergul (Uzbek), dấu chấm phẩy (alt: 𧿫點𢵪) (Vietnamese), hanner colon [masculine] (Welsh), hanner colonau [masculine, plural] (Welsh), unzoqhwishi class 1a/2a (Zulu)
    Sense id: en-semicolon-en-noun-GXS-07x1 Categories (other): Arabic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms prefixed with semi-, Vietnamese terms with redundant script codes Related terms: apostrophe (alt: '; ’), curly brackets, brace (alt: { }) [US], square bracket, bracket (alt: [ ]) [US], colon (alt: :), comma (alt: ,), dash (alt: ‒; –; —; ―), ellipsis (alt: ), exclamation mark (alt: !), fraction slash (alt: ), guillemet (alt: « »; ‹ ›), hyphen (alt: -; ‐), interpunct (alt: ·), interrobang (alt: ) [rare], bracket, parentheses (US, Canada) (alt: ( )), full stop, period (alt: .) [Canada, US], question mark (alt: ?), quotation marks (alt: ‘ ’ ‚; „) [formal], quotation marks (alt: "; ') [informal] [computing, engineering, mathematics, sciences, physical-sciences, natural-sciences], slash, stroke (alt: /) [UK], space (alt: ] [), Greek question mark

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          "alt": ":",
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          "alt": ",",
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        {
          "alt": "‒; –; —; ―",
          "word": "dash"
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        {
          "alt": "…",
          "word": "ellipsis"
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        {
          "alt": "!",
          "word": "exclamation mark"
        },
        {
          "alt": "⁄",
          "word": "fraction slash"
        },
        {
          "alt": "« »; ‹ ›",
          "word": "guillemet"
        },
        {
          "alt": "-; ‐",
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          "alt": "·",
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          "alt": "‽",
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        {
          "alt": "( )",
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          "word": "full stop"
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          "alt": ".",
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        {
          "alt": "?",
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        {
          "word": "slash"
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          "word": "stroke"
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        {
          "alt": "] [",
          "word": "space"
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          "code": "sq",
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "pikëpresje"
        },
        {
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "fāṣila manqūṭa",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "فَاصِلَة مَنْقُوطَة"
        },
        {
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "symbol"
          ],
          "word": "؛"
        },
        {
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "ket-storaket",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "կետ-ստորակետ"
        },
        {
          "code": "ast",
          "lang": "Asturian",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
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          ],
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        },
        {
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "nöqtəli vergül"
        },
        {
          "code": "ba",
          "lang": "Bashkir",
          "roman": "nöktəle ötör",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "нөктәле өтөр"
        },
        {
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "krópka z kóskaj",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "кро́пка з ко́скай"
        },
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "tóčka i zapetája",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "то́чка и запета́я"
        },
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "punt i coma"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "分號"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "fēnhào",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "分号"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "symbol"
          ],
          "word": ";"
        },
        {
          "code": "kw",
          "lang": "Cornish",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "poynt ha komma"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "středník"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "semikolon"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "puntkomma"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "kommapunt"
        },
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "punktokomo"
        },
        {
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "semikoolon"
        },
        {
          "code": "fo",
          "lang": "Faroese",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "semikolon"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "puolipiste"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "point-virgule"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "punto e coma"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "c̣erṭilmʒime",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "წერტილმძიმე"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "c̣erṭil-mʒime",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "წერტილ-მძიმე"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Strichpunkt"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Semikolon"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "áno teleía",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "άνω τελεία"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "note": "in relevance to the Greek language",
          "roman": "erotimatikó",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "ερωτηματικό"
        },
        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "n'kudá uf'sík",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "נקודה ופסיק \\ נְקֻדָּה וּפְסִיק"
        },
        {
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "ardhavirām",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "अर्धविराम"
        },
        {
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "semīkolan",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "सेमीकोलन"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "pontosvessző"
        },
        {
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "puntokomo"
        },
        {
          "code": "ia",
          "lang": "Interlingua",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "puncto e virgula"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "leathstad"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "masculine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "leathstadanna"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "punto e virgola"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "semikoron",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "セミコロン"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "symbol"
          ],
          "word": ";"
        },
        {
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "nüktelı ütır",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "нүктелі үтір"
        },
        {
          "alt": "雙半點",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "ssangbanjeom",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "쌍반점"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "semikollon",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "세미콜론"
        },
        {
          "code": "ky",
          "lang": "Kyrgyz",
          "roman": "ütürdüü cekit",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "үтүрдүү чекит"
        },
        {
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "semikols"
        },
        {
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "kabliataškis"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "točka-zapirka",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "точка-запирка"
        },
        {
          "code": "ml",
          "lang": "Malayalam",
          "roman": "aṟddhavirāmaṁ",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "അർദ്ധവിരാമം"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "kopipiko"
        },
        {
          "code": "mn",
          "lang": "Mongolian",
          "roman": "cegtej taslal",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "цэгтэй таслал"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "semikolon"
        },
        {
          "code": "ps",
          "lang": "Pashto",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "symbol"
          ],
          "word": "؛"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "noqte-virgul",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "نقطهویرگول"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "symbol"
          ],
          "word": "؛"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "średnik"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "ponto e vírgula"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ponto-e-vírgula"
        },
        {
          "code": "pa",
          "lang": "Punjabi",
          "roman": "bindī kāmā",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ਬਿੰਦੀ ਕਾਮਾ"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "punct și virgulă"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "tóčka s zapjatój",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "то́чка с запято́й"
        },
        {
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "leth-chòilean"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "точка за зарезом"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "тачка са зепетом"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "točka sa zarezom"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "tačka sa zapetom"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "bodkočiarka"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "podpičje"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "punto y coma"
        },
        {
          "code": "sw",
          "lang": "Swahili",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "alama ya nuktamkato"
        },
        {
          "code": "sw",
          "lang": "Swahili",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "nukta mkato"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "semikolon"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "tuldok-kuwit"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "àt-tá-pâak",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "อัฒภาค"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "noktalı virgül"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "krápka z kómoju",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "кра́пка з ко́мою"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "serédnyk",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "сере́дник"
        },
        {
          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "symbol"
          ],
          "word": "؛"
        },
        {
          "code": "uz",
          "lang": "Uzbek",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "nuqtali vergul"
        },
        {
          "alt": "𧿫點𢵪",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "dấu chấm phẩy"
        },
        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "hanner colon"
        },
        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "tags": [
            "masculine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "hanner colonau"
        },
        {
          "code": "zu",
          "lang": "Zulu",
          "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
          "word": "unzoqhwishi class 1a/2a"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "semicolon"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˌsɛmiˈkəʊlən/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ˈkəʊlɒn/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɛmikoʊlən/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
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}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "semicolon butterfly"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "semi",
        "3": "colon"
      },
      "expansion": "semi- + colon",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From semi- + colon.",
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    {
      "form": "semicolons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semicola",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "semicola"
      },
      "expansion": "semicolon (plural semicolons or semicola)",
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "alt": "'; ’",
      "word": "apostrophe"
    },
    {
      "word": "curly brackets"
    },
    {
      "alt": "{ }",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "brace"
    },
    {
      "word": "square bracket"
    },
    {
      "alt": "[ ]",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "bracket"
    },
    {
      "alt": ":",
      "word": "colon"
    },
    {
      "alt": ",",
      "word": "comma"
    },
    {
      "alt": "‒; –; —; ―",
      "word": "dash"
    },
    {
      "alt": "…",
      "word": "ellipsis"
    },
    {
      "alt": "!",
      "word": "exclamation mark"
    },
    {
      "alt": "⁄",
      "word": "fraction slash"
    },
    {
      "alt": "« »; ‹ ›",
      "word": "guillemet"
    },
    {
      "alt": "-; ‐",
      "word": "hyphen"
    },
    {
      "alt": "·",
      "word": "interpunct"
    },
    {
      "alt": "‽",
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "interrobang"
    },
    {
      "word": "bracket"
    },
    {
      "word": "parentheses (US"
    },
    {
      "alt": "( )",
      "word": "Canada)"
    },
    {
      "word": "full stop"
    },
    {
      "alt": ".",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "period"
    },
    {
      "alt": "?",
      "word": "question mark"
    },
    {
      "alt": "‘ ’ ‚; „",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ],
      "word": "quotation marks"
    },
    {
      "alt": "\"; '",
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "word": "quotation marks"
    },
    {
      "word": "slash"
    },
    {
      "alt": "/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "word": "stroke"
    },
    {
      "alt": "] [",
      "word": "space"
    },
    {
      "word": "Greek question mark"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "categories": [
        "Arabic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "English 4-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms prefixed with semi-",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Vietnamese terms with redundant script codes",
        "en:Punctuation marks",
        "en:Typography"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 28",
          "text": "The use of the semicolon has remained contentious and subject to fashion.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The punctuation mark ;."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "punctuation mark",
          "punctuation mark"
        ],
        [
          ";",
          ";#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "semicolon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌsɛmiˈkəʊlən/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ˈkəʊlɒn/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɛmikoʊlən/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "semi-colon"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pikëpresje"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "fāṣila manqūṭa",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "فَاصِلَة مَنْقُوطَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "symbol"
      ],
      "word": "؛"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "ket-storaket",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "կետ-ստորակետ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "puntu y coma"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "nöqtəli vergül"
    },
    {
      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "nöktəle ötör",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "нөктәле өтөр"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "krópka z kóskaj",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "кро́пка з ко́скай"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "tóčka i zapetája",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "то́чка и запета́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "punt i coma"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "分號"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fēnhào",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "分号"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "symbol"
      ],
      "word": ";"
    },
    {
      "code": "kw",
      "lang": "Cornish",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "poynt ha komma"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "středník"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "semikolon"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "puntkomma"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kommapunt"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "punktokomo"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "semikoolon"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "semikolon"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "puolipiste"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "point-virgule"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "punto e coma"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "c̣erṭilmʒime",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "წერტილმძიმე"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "c̣erṭil-mʒime",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "წერტილ-მძიმე"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Strichpunkt"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Semikolon"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "áno teleía",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "άνω τελεία"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "note": "in relevance to the Greek language",
      "roman": "erotimatikó",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ερωτηματικό"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "n'kudá uf'sík",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "נקודה ופסיק \\ נְקֻדָּה וּפְסִיק"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "ardhavirām",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "अर्धविराम"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "semīkolan",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "सेमीकोलन"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "pontosvessző"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "puntokomo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ia",
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "puncto e virgula"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "leathstad"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "leathstadanna"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "punto e virgola"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "semikoron",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "セミコロン"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "symbol"
      ],
      "word": ";"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "nüktelı ütır",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "нүктелі үтір"
    },
    {
      "alt": "雙半點",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "ssangbanjeom",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "쌍반점"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "semikollon",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "세미콜론"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "ütürdüü cekit",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "үтүрдүү чекит"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "semikols"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kabliataškis"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "točka-zapirka",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "точка-запирка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "aṟddhavirāmaṁ",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "അർദ്ധവിരാമം"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "kopipiko"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "cegtej taslal",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "цэгтэй таслал"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "semikolon"
    },
    {
      "code": "ps",
      "lang": "Pashto",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "symbol"
      ],
      "word": "؛"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "noqte-virgul",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "نقطهویرگول"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "symbol"
      ],
      "word": "؛"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "średnik"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "ponto e vírgula"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ponto-e-vírgula"
    },
    {
      "code": "pa",
      "lang": "Punjabi",
      "roman": "bindī kāmā",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ਬਿੰਦੀ ਕਾਮਾ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "punct și virgulă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tóčka s zapjatój",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "то́чка с запято́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "leth-chòilean"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "точка за зарезом"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тачка са зепетом"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "točka sa zarezom"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tačka sa zapetom"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bodkočiarka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "podpičje"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "punto y coma"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "alama ya nuktamkato"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "nukta mkato"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "semikolon"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "tuldok-kuwit"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "àt-tá-pâak",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "อัฒภาค"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "noktalı virgül"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "krápka z kómoju",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "кра́пка з ко́мою"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "serédnyk",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "сере́дник"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "symbol"
      ],
      "word": "؛"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "nuqtali vergul"
    },
    {
      "alt": "𧿫點𢵪",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "dấu chấm phẩy"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hanner colon"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "hanner colonau"
    },
    {
      "code": "zu",
      "lang": "Zulu",
      "sense": "punctuation mark ';'",
      "word": "unzoqhwishi class 1a/2a"
    }
  ],
  "word": "semicolon"
}

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