apostrophe

1. N-COUNT An apostrophe is the mark ' when it is written to indicate that one or more letters have been left out of a word, as in "isn't" and "we'll." It is also added to nouns to form possessives, as in "Mike's car." 撇號

2. N-COUNT a digression from a discourse, esp an address to an imaginary or absent person or a personification 呼語; 尤指對不在場者或擬人事物所說話語[rhetoric]