ampersand
Other forms: ampersands
An ampersand is a shorthand symbol for "and." It looks like this: & .
People often use an ampersand when they want to save space — like when they're writing on Twitter or trying to come up with a cool company logo. The symbol comes from ancient Roman times and can be seen in really old Pompeiian graffiti. The word ampersand is a mix of Latin and English and a condensed version of the phrase "and per se and," which means "(the character) '&' by itself is 'and'."
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a punctuation mark (&) used to represent conjunction (and)type of:punctuation, punctuation markthe marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases
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