Polish word senses marked with topical category "Symbols"
Parent categories: Letters, symbols, and punctuation, Orthography, Writing, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication
Subcategories: Diacritical marks, Logograms, Matched pairs, Punctuation marks
Total 43 word senses
- apostrof (Noun) apostrophe (the text character ’)
- cudzysłów (Noun) quotation mark
- daszek (Noun) circumflex (^)
- diereza (Noun) diaeresis (natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot, in a line of verse)
- dwukropek (Noun) colon (punctuation mark)
- dywiz (Noun) hyphen (symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split)
- falanga (Noun) phalanx (in Charles Fourier's theory of utopian socialism: a community of about 1,600 people, engaged in agriculture and production, living in settlements)
- gałązka oliwna (Noun) olive branch (any symbol of peace, or a peace offering to an adversary to show goodwill and in the hope of securing peace)
- gwiazda Dawida (Noun) Star of David
- haczyk (Noun) caron, háček (diacritical mark)
- interpunkcja (Noun) punctuation (the use of punctuation marks in text and the rules that govern it)
- kaduceusz (Noun) caduceus (staff of Hermes (Mercury) as messenger of the gods)
- kreska (Noun) diacritic closely resembling an acute accent
- kropka (Noun) period (punctation mark)
- kryska (Noun) Obsolete form of kreska.
- krzaczek (Noun) moonrunes (illegible characters; squiggle); Chinese characters
- krzyż celtycki (Noun) Celtic cross (four-armed figure in the shape of a cross, placed in a circle, symbolizing the traditional Celtic garland of rue, which was originally a solar symbol, then a religious symbol of Celtic Christians, later also used by nationalist and racist movements)
- myślnik (Noun) dash (punctuation mark; typographic symbols are called półpauza (N-dash) and pauza (M-dash))
- nawias (Noun) bracket, parenthesis
- odcinek (Noun) comma (punctuation mark ,)
- ogonek (Noun) any diacritical mark
- podkreślnik (Noun) underline, underscore, low line (character _)
- przecinek (Noun) comma (punctuation)
- pytajnik (Noun) question mark
- sierp i młot (Noun) hammer and sickle (symbol of communism)
- swastyka (Noun) swastika (cross with arms of equal length all bent halfway along at a 90° angle)
- trema (Noun) trema, diaeresis (diacritic consisting of two dots (¨) placed over a letter, used among other things to indicate umlaut or diaeresis)
- trupia czaszka (Noun) skull and crossbones (depiction of a human skull and two crossed femurs (thighbones), a symbol of death traditionally used on the Jolly Roger pirate flag, but now as a warning of toxicity or other dangers)
- trupia główka (Noun) death's-head hawkmoth (any moth of the genus Acherontia)
- tryzub (Noun) manger filled with fodder placed in the forest
- tryzub (Noun) the trident in the coat of arms of Ukraine
- tylda (Noun) tilde
- ukośnik (Noun) slash (symbol, "/")
- umlaut (Noun) umlaut (diacritical mark)
- wielokropek (Noun) ellipsis (punctuation mark)
- wykrzyknik (Noun) interjection, exclamation (part of speech)
- znak zapytania (Noun) question mark
- łącznik (Noun) liaison officer
- średnik (Noun) semicolon (punctuation mark indicating a pause longer than the comma)
- ' (Punctuation) put before the declension suffix of a foreign name, if the preceding letter is silent
- » « (Punctuation) encloses an embedded (inner) quotation
- „ ” (Punctuation) Encloses a quotation.
- ◌́ (Character) A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called kreska (“line”) in Polish, and found on Ć/ć, Ń/ń, Ó/ó, Ś/ś and Ź/ź.
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