Ampersand

Word AMPERSAND
Character 9
Hyphenation am per sand
Pronunciations /ˈæm.pə(ɹ).sænd/

Definitions and meanings of "Ampersand"

What do we mean by ampersand?

The character or sign (&) representing the word and. noun

A name formerly in use for the character & or & (also called short and), which is formed by combining the letters of the Latin et, and, and which is commonly placed at the end of the alphabet in primers. noun

A word used to describe the character �, �, or &. noun

The symbol "&". noun

A punctuation mark (&) used to represent conjunction (and) noun

The symbol "&".

The & symbol. simple as that. Urban Dictionary

An ampersand is the symbol &, which was designed by German typesetter Manfred Johann Amper in 1634 as an abbreviation for the German word "und", which means "and" in English; hence the symbol was first known as "Amper's 'and' ", which was eventually syncopated into "ampersand", the term by which we know it today. Urban Dictionary

An emo way of saying and. Urban Dictionary

Yes its the & symbol on everyone's key board but its so much more...its just full of people who just like doing what they do...techies rock, actors, ushers, everything...we don't hate people at school...we are just naturally drawn to the people down at mcvey...don't dis us if you have never tried it for a trimester...if you aren't an ampersand memeber how could you know what we think?hmm... Urban Dictionary

Noun: the sign "&" (standing for the word 'and', as in "U & I") “&” was actually part of the English alphabet. In the early 1800s, school children reciting their ABCs concluded the alphabet with the "&" coming after the letter 'Z'..........the alphabet was originally 27 characters long because '&' was an actual letter member. But then Grammar Nazis decided "&" was not worthy of being in the alphabet, so they took it out (the same illogical mindset that decided Pluto was not a planet, but only a large asteroid.) Urban Dictionary

Ampersandism is NOT excessive use of the word "and". Ampersandism is, absolutely specifically, the excessive, incorrect and ungrammatical substitution of the "&" symbol (ampersand) in place of the the word "and". Urban Dictionary

Ampersandism is NOT excessive use of the word "and". Ampersandism is, absolutely specifically, the excessive, incorrect and ungrammatical substitution of the "&" symbol (ampersand) in place of the the word "and". Urban Dictionary

Excessive and unnecessary use of the conjunction 'and'. Urban Dictionary

A gender specific problem that happens to male's where in which shit comes out their dick once a month. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Ampersand

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The word "ampersand" in example sentences

The ampersand is typically used to save time and space. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think I called the ampersand “the squiggly and-thing” or something very similar before I discovered its name. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Transcriber's Note: The "|" s below are my best rendition in plain ASCII of a Saxon ampersand, which is a long vertical bar with a short horizontal bar at the top, pointing to the left.] + ORM · GAMAL · SVNA · BOHTE · SC [= S] [+ ORM · GAMAL · SUNA · BOHTE · SANCTUS] ❋ Gordon Home (1923)

Either way, we think the ampersand is a ligature for ❋ Unknown (2009)

The single text operator (the so-called ampersand) is used in formulas to join together two or more text entries (an operation with the highfalutin 'name concatenation). ❋ Elifa (2009)

Go to images.google.com and search for "ampersand" for lots of examples of the extreme variation in style of this particular symbol. ❋ Jen (2009)

I'd always wondered about the source of the word "ampersand", but never got around to looking it up. ❋ Lili (2007)

Schwartz & Wade are relatively easy when you consider that one is named Schwartz and one is named Wade though they pulled a third person onto the stage with them this season, so I guess I'll have to refer to that person as "ampersand". ❋ Fusenumber8 (2007)

Its like that conversation that I had with Roger a while back, boys who know what an "ampersand" is - I totally think is hot. ❋ Moschikat (2004)

To add another forum to ignore just use double "ampersand" as shown above. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For example, should translators use an ampersand, meaning the translation should run thru check_plain () when it's being rendered to page output, or an HTML entity-encoded ampersand? ❋ Nedjo (2008)

Notice the character that looks like a crossed "7" -- this is an ancient shorthand symbol for "et," which is now represented with an ampersand. ❋ Carolyn Vega (2011)

The history of question marks and their ilk turns out to be epic, particularly in the case of the ampersand, whose evolution takes in everything from Julius Caesar to a 17th-century typesetter called Amper who didn't actually exist and even Nazi Germany. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But the $140,000 I shelled out just so my kid could go to a school with an ampersand in its name? ❋ Joe Queenan (2011)

To my right there is an ampersand made of black metal ribbon candy. ❋ Stephen Hastings-king (2011)

So is it the ampersand or the capitalization that makes it different. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[I like] [macaroni] & [cheese]. ❋ Jade (2004)

On a standard US keyboard the ampersand is on the same key as the numeral 7. Her malformed [pretzels] looked like ampersands. In [formal] [symbolic] logic the truth-functional connective AND is often represented by an ampersand. ❋ &y &erson (2010)

Person #1: & today I got [wristbands] & [earrings] & [wifebeaters] & glasses Person #2: go away emo. ❋ &m0 (2005)

st.[c girl]: "those ampersand people are [werid].." [techie]: "have you ever tried working down at the theather?" st.c girl:" no i'm too cool with all my money.." techie:" then don't tell us we are werid cause we actually do something productive with our time.." ❋ One Of The Ellet Cult Members (2005)

Ampersand, like [Pluto] were [robbed] of their [identity]! ❋ Jimmy Fedd (2016)

Ampersandism is not [excessive] [use] of [the word] "and". ❋ John Tropi (2021)

Ampersandism is NOT [excessive] [use] of [the word] "and". ❋ John Tropi (2021)

[I came] and I saw [you and I] passed the time of day with you and I returned. It is [a case] of ampersandism. ❋ Uttam Maharjan (2010)

"[Ugg], I'm on my [ampersand] today, the dick [cramps] are unbelievable" ❋ BananaBushJones (2013)

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