Comma

/ˈkɒmə/

Synonyms for "comma" (45 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (9)

Noun(2 words)
breath pausebrief pause

Strong matches (14)

Noun(4 words)
comma butterflydelimiterdiesislist marker
dashdecimal pointdiagonaldotellipsisexclamation markfull stophyphenintervaljuncture

Related words (22)

Noun(6 words)
pausepause markpolygonia commaseparatorspeech pauseswedish komma

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

10 entries
brush-footed butterflyfour-footed butterflynymphalidnymphalid butterflyorthographypauseprosodypunctuationpunctuation markspeech feature

More specific

5 entries
Oxford commabreath pausenonrestrictive commaserial commashort pause

Collocations

5 entries
Oxford commacomma placementcomma rulecomma spliceserial comma

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

3 entries
comma separatedcomma spliceserial comma

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

In another paragraph, he put in a comma.

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My attitude to the comma is physiological; the more breath I have, the fewer commas I use.

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The Oxford comma is awkward, unnecessary, and cannot be carried over to languages other than English.

Source: tatoeba (712526)

Tatoeba: Where nothing ruins a passionate night of sentence-making like a poorly placed comma or, even worse, a careless typo.

Source: tatoeba (834860)

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