parentheses

Other users have misspelling parentheses as:

1. parantheses 13.95%
2. parentesi 4.65%
3. Other 81.4%

Definitions of parentheses

noun

1. a message that departs from the main subject
2. either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material

Examples of parentheses

1. And the shade of meaning, the limited qualification, that a Frenchman or Englishman can attain with a mere twist of the sentence, the German must either abandon or laboriously overstate with some colossal wormcast of parenthesis ....
2. In the case of nouns, the singular with the postpositive definite article and the indefinite plural are given in parenthesis.
3. The sentence 'Her youngest sister - the one who lives in Australia - is coming over next summer' contains a parenthesis.

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