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semicolon

2 ENTRIES FOUND:

semi·co·lon

noun \ˈse-mē-ˌkō-lən, ˈse-ˌmī-, -mi-\

Definition of SEMICOLON

: a punctuation mark ; used chiefly in a coordinating function between major sentence elements (as independent clauses of a compound sentence)

First Known Use of SEMICOLON

1644

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