noun
: one of a pair of punctuation marks “”, ‘’, "", or '' used to indicate the beginning and the end of a quotation in which the exact phraseology of another or of a text is directly cited — usually used to enclose the titles of poems, paintings, lectures, articles, and parts of books and sometimes used to enclose technical terms expected to be unfamiliar to the reader, words used in an unusual, ironical, or eye-catching sense, or words (as slang expressions) for which a writer offers a slight apology