full stop

English

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /fʊl stɒp/

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Noun

full stop (plural full stops)

1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the end of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).

Synonyms

• (indicating end of sentence) period (North America)
• (marking an abbreviation) dot, point

Derived terms

• full-stop landing

See also

Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) braces (publishing, music, programming) ( { } ) brackets (publishing, programming) ( [ ] ) colon ( : )

comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … ) exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop (British) or period (North America) ( . ) guillemets (publishing) ( « » )

hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ ) interpunct (publishing, web design) ( · ) interrobang (rare) ( ‽ ) parentheses ( ( ) )

question mark ( ? ) quotation marks (formal, British) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” ) quotation marks (informal, North America, computing) ( " ) ( ' )

semicolon ( ; ) slash ( / ) solidus (dated, mathematics) ( ⁄ ) space (   )

Translations

The punctuation mark “.”

• Arabic: نقطة (ar) (nuqTa) f, علامة فصلية (ar) (3alaama faSlíyya) f
• Armenian: (indicating end of sentence) վերջակետ (hy) (verǰaket), (marking an abbreviation) կետ (hy) (ket)
• Bengali: (Bengali symbol) । (bn)
• Bulgarian: точка (bg) (točka) f
• Burmese: (symbol) ။ (my), ၊ (my)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 。 (cmn) (Chinese symbol), 句號 (cmn), 句号 (cmn) (jùhào) , 句點 (cmn), 句点 (cmn) (jùdiǎn) (European dot: “.”)

• Czech: tečka (cs) f
• Danish: punktum (da) n
• Dutch: punt (nl)
• Esperanto: punkto (eo)
• Finnish: piste (fi)
• French: point (fr) m
• Greek: τελεία (el) (teleía) f
• Hindi: । (hi) (Hindi symbol), दंड (hi) (da.n.d) m, पूर्ण विराम (hi) (pūrṇa virām)
• Hungarian: pont (hu)

• Irish: lánstad (ga) m
• Italian: punto (it) m
• Japanese: 。 (ja) (Japanese symbol), 句点 (ja) (くてん, kuten)
• Jèrriais: point m
• Macedonian: точка (mk) (tóčka) f
• Malay: noktah (ms)
• Persian: نقطه (fa) (noqte)
• Portuguese: ponto (pt) m
• Russian: точка (ru) (tóčka) f
• Sanskrit: । (sa), दंड (sa) (daṇḍá) m
• Scottish Gaelic: stad-phuing (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тачка (sh) f, точка (sh) f

  Roman: tačka (sh) f, točka (sh) f

• Spanish: punto (es) m
• Swedish: punkt (sv) c
• Telugu: చుక్క (te)
• Turkish: nokta (tr)
• Urdu: ۔ (ur) (Urdu symbol)

Interjection

full stop

1. (colloquial) Used to emphasize the end of an important statement or point when speaking.

   We need more people to join IRC, full stop.

Synonyms

(and nothing less): and that’s final, and that’s that, it’s as simple as that, period (North America), end of

Translations

And nothing less

• Finnish: ja (fi) piste (fi)
• French: un point c’est tout (fr), point (fr), point final (fr)
• Greek: τελεία και παύλα (el) (teleía kai pávla)

• Portuguese: ponto final (pt)
• Swedish: och därmed basta (sv)!, punkt slut (sv)