question marknoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkwes.tʃən ˌmɑːk/us/ˈkwes.tʃən ˌmɑːrk/B1 the symbol ? used in writing at the end of a phrase or sentence to show that it is a question
Examples
- Was there a question mark at the end of the sentence?
- Where is the question mark on this keyboard?
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Punctuation
- ampersand
- asterisk
- capitalize
- caron
- cedilla
- dash
- ditto
- grave (accent)
- guillemet
- hyphen
- hyphenate
- lower case
- parentheses
- period
- punctuation
- punctuation mark
- quotation marks
- stroke
- tilde
- upper case
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Idiom(s)
a question mark over sth