quotation mark noun
plural ∼ marks [count] : one of a pair of punctuation marks “ ” or ‘ ’ that are used to show the beginning and the end of a quotation, to show that something is a title, to show that a word or phrase is being used in a special way, etc. — usually plural ▪ There were quotations marks around the phrase. = The phrase was in quotation marks. ▪ Titles of newspaper articles should be placed/put in quotation marks. —called also (Brit) inverted comma
