full stop

See also: fullstop and full-stop

English

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

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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 “.”

• Albanian: pikë (sq) f
• Arabic: نُقْطَة‏‎ f (nuqṭa), عَلَامَة فَصْلِيَّة‏‎ f (ʿalāma faṣliyya)
• Armenian: (indicating end of sentence) վերջակետ (hy) (verǰaket), (marking an abbreviation) կետ (hy) (ket)
• Azeri: nöqtə (az)
• Bashkir: нөктә (nöktä)
• Belarusian: кро́пка f (krópka)
• Bengali: (Bengali symbol) । (.)
• Bulgarian: то́чка (bg) f (tóčka)
• Burmese: (symbol) ။, ၊
• 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, Schlusspunkt (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)
• Hungarian: pont (hu)
• Icelandic: punktur m
• Irish: lánstad 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)
• 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
• Maori: ira kati
• Mongolian: цэг (mn) (tseg)
• Norman: point m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: punktum n

• 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 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

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