full stop

See also: fullstop and full-stop

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌfʊl ˈstɒp/

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Noun

full stop (plural full stops)

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

Synonyms

• (indicating end of sentence) See period
• (marking an abbreviation) dot, point, -x

Derived terms

• full-stop landing

Translations

The punctuation mark “.”

• Albanian: pikë (sq) f
• Arabic: نُقْطَة‎ (ar) f (nuqṭa), عَلَامَة فَصْلِيَّة‎ f (ʿalāma faṣliyya)
• Armenian: (indicating end of sentence) վերջակետ (hy) (verǰaket), (marking an abbreviation) կետ (hy) (ket)
• Assamese: দাৰি (dari) (Assamese symbol) । (.)
• Azerbaijani: nöqtə (az)
• Bashkir: нөктә (nöktä)
• Belarusian: кро́пка f (krópka)
• Bengali: (Bengali symbol) । (.), ফুলস্টপ্ (phulôśṭôp), বিন্দু (bindu)
• Bulgarian: то́чка (bg) f (tóčka)
• Burmese: (symbol) ။ (my), ၊ (my)
• Catalan: punt (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Chuvash: пӑнчӑ (pănčă)
• Czech: tečka (cs) f
• Danish: punktum (da) n
• Dutch: punt (nl) n
• Esperanto: punkto
• Estonian: punkt (et)
• Finnish: piste (fi)
• French: point (fr) m
• Georgian: წერტილი (c̣erṭili)
• German: Punkt (de) m
• Greek: τελεία (el) f (teleía)
• Hebrew: נקודה \ נְקֻדָּה‎ (he) f (n'kudá)
• Hindi: दंड (hi) m (daṇḍ), । (Hindi symbol), पूर्ण विराम (pūrṇ virām), बिंदु (hi) m (bindu)
• Hungarian: pont (hu)
• Icelandic: punktur (is) m
• Irish: lánstad m, ponc m
• Italian: punto (it) m
• Japanese: 句点 (ja) (くてん, kuten), 終止符 (ja) (しゅうしふ, shūshifu), 。 (ja) (Japanese symbol), ピリオド (ja) (piriodo)
• Kalmyk: цег (tseg)
• Kazakh: нүкте (kk) (nükte)
• Korean: 마침표 (ko) (machimpyo)
• Kyrgyz: чекит (ky) (çekit)
• Lakota: wóihaŋke

• Lao: ຈຸດ (chut)
• Latvian: punkts m
• Lithuanian: taškas (lt) m
• Macedonian: точка f (točka)
• Malay: noktah, titik
• Malayalam: പൂർണ്ണവിരാമം (pūrṇṇavirāmaṃ)
• Maori: ira kati, kopi
• Mongolian: цэг (mn) (tseg)
• Norman: point m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: punktum (no) n

• Pashto: نقطه‎ (ps) f (noqtá)
• Persian: نقطه‎ (fa) (noqte)
• Polish: kropka (pl) f
• Portuguese: ponto (pt) m
• Romanian: punct (ro) n
• Russian: то́чка (ru) f (tóčka)
• Rusyn: то́чка f (tóčka)
• Sanskrit: दंड (sa) m (daṃḍa), ।
• Scottish Gaelic: stad-phuing f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тачка f, точка f

  Roman: tačka (sh) f, točka (sh) f

• Slovak: bodka (sk) f
• Slovene: pika (sl) f
• Spanish: punto (es) m
• Swedish: punkt (sv) c
• Tajik: нуқта (nuqta)
• Tatar: нөктә (tt) (nöktä)
• Telugu: చుక్క (te) (cukka)
• Thai: มหัพภาค (th) (má-hàp-pâak), จุด (th) (jùt), พินทุ (th) (pin-tú)
• Turkish: nokta (tr)
• Turkmen: nokat
• Ukrainian: кра́пка f (krápka)
• Urdu: ۔‎ (Urdu symbol)
• Uyghur: نۇقتا‎ (nuqta)
• Uzbek: nuqta (uz)
• Vietnamese: dấu chấm (vi)
• Welsh: atalnod llawn m

See also

Punctuation

• apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
• braces ( { } )
• brackets ( [ ] )
• colon ( : )
• comma ( , )

• dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
• ellipsis ( … )
• exclamation mark ( ! )
• fraction slash ( ⁄ )
• guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › )

• hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
• interpunct ( · )
• interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
• parentheses ( ( ) )
• period (US) or full stop (Britain) ( . )

• question mark ( ? )
• quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
• quotation marks (informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' )

• semicolon ( ; )
• slash (US) or stroke (Britain) ( / )
• space (   )

Interjection

full stop

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

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Synonyms

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

Translations

Interjection

• Finnish: piste (fi), ja piste
• French: un point c’est tout (fr), point (fr), point final (fr)
• German: Schluss, aus, Ende; Punkt. Aus. Ende; keine Widerrede; basta (de); und damit basta; da ist nichts zu machen; Punktum (de) (dated)
• Greek: τελεία και παύλα (el) (teleía kai pávla)

• Portuguese: ponto final (pt)
• Russian: и то́чка (ru) (i tóčka)
• Swedish: och därmed basta!, punkt slut