single quotes: Meaning and Definition of

sin'gle quotes'

Pronunciation: [key]
  1. (one pair of single quotation marks, written as (" ') and used esp. for a quotation within another quotation): He said, “I told you to say "Open, sesame' when you want to enter the mountain.”
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