full stop

See also: fullstop and full-stop

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fʊl stɒp/

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Noun

full stop ‎(plural full stops)

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India) 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

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 (UK) ( . )

question mark ( ? ) quotation marks (formal, UK) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” ) quotation marks (informal, US, Computing) ( " ) ( ' )

semicolon ( ; ) slash (US) or stroke (UK) ( / ) space (   )

Translations

The punctuation mark “.”

• Arabic: نُقْطَة f ‎(nuqṭa), عَلَامَة فَصْلِيَّة f ‎(ʿalāma faṣliyya)
• Armenian: (indicating end of sentence) վերջակետ (hy) ‎(verǰaket), (marking an abbreviation) կետ (hy) ‎(ket)
• Bengali: (Bengali symbol) । ‎(.)
• Bulgarian: точка (bg) f ‎(točka)
• Burmese: (symbol) ။ ‎(||), ၊ ‎(|)
• Catalan: punt (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: tečka (cs) f
• Danish: punktum (da) n
• Dutch: punt (nl)
• Esperanto: punkto
• Finnish: piste (fi)
• French: point (fr) m
• Georgian: წერტილი ‎(c̣erṭili)
• German: Punkt (de) m, Schlusspunkt (de) m
• Greek: τελεία (el) f ‎(teleía)
• Hindi: । ‎(.) (Hindi symbol), दंड (hi) m ‎(da.n.d), पूर्ण विराम ‎(pūrṇa virām)
• Hungarian: pont (hu)
• Irish: lánstad m
• Italian: punto (it) m

• Japanese: 。 (ja) (Japanese symbol), 句点 (ja) ‎(くてん, kuten)
• Maori: ira kati
• Norman: point m
• Kalmyk: цег ‎(tseg)
• Lakota: wóihaŋke
• Macedonian: точка f ‎(tóčka)
• Malay: noktah
• Persian: نقطه (fa) ‎(noqte)
• Portuguese: ponto (pt) m
• Russian: то́чка (ru) f ‎(tóčka)
• Sanskrit: । ‎(.), दंड (sa) m ‎(daṇḍá)
• Scottish Gaelic: stad-phuing f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тачка f, точка f

  Roman: tačka (sh) f, točka (sh) f

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

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