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Noun
1. semicolon
Wikipedia definition
2. SemicolonThe semicolon, in Unicode U+003B ; semicolon, is a punctuation mark with several uses. The Italian printer Aldus Manutius the Elder established the practice of using the semicolon to separate words of opposed meaning and to indicate interdependent statements. "The first printed semicolon was the work of ... Aldus Manutius" in 1494. Ben Jonson was the first notable English writer to use the semicolon systematically.
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