parenthesesnoun [ plural ]
uk/pəˈren.θə.siːz/us/pəˈren.θə.siːz/mainly US UK usually round brackets, bracketsthe symbols ( ) that are put around a word, phrase, or sentence in a piece of writing to show that what is inside them should be considered as separate from the main part:
The students' first names are shown in parentheses, like this: Baker (Tina).
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Punctuation
- ampersand
- asterisk
- capitalize
- caron
- cedilla
- dash
- ditto
- ellipsis
- grave (accent)
- guillemet
- hyphen
- hyphenate
- lower case
- period
- punctuation
- punctuation mark
- question mark
- quotation marks
- tilde
- upper case
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