quotation mark in English

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quotation mark",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quotation marks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She said \"I'm not hungry\" when the waiter asked her what she wanted to eat."
        },
        {
          "text": "Use a quotation mark around something someone said."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Mark used to show the start and end to a quotation: \"."
      ],
      "id": "simple-quotation_mark-en-noun-JODLofXu"
    }
  ],
  "word": "quotation mark"
}

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quotation mark",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quotation marks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She said \"I'm not hungry\" when the waiter asked her what she wanted to eat."
        },
        {
          "text": "Use a quotation mark around something someone said."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Mark used to show the start and end to a quotation: \"."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "quotation mark"
}

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"quotation mark" meaning in English

Noun