Semicolon Definition
sĕmĭ-kōlən
noun
A mark of punctuation (;) indicating a degree of separation greater than that marked by the comma and less than that marked by the period: used chiefly to separate units that contain elements separated by commas, and to separate closely related coordinate clauses.
Webster's New World
The punctuation mark ';' .
A semicolon is followed by an initial lower-case letter (unless for proper nouns).
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Semicolon
Noun
Singular:
semicolon
Plural:
semicola, semicolonsOrigin of Semicolon
-
From semi- +"Ž colon.
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