full stop

See also: fullstop

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).
2. (figurative) A decisive end to something.
   • 2022 October 22, Wendy Ide, quoting Steven Spielberg, “‘It’s a way to bring my mum and dad back’: Steven Spielberg on the new wave of cine-memoirs”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     [S]pielberg was keen to stress that The Fabelmans is not a full stop: “It is not because I decided to retire, and this is my swan song, don’t believe that.”

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 (ʕalāma 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 (phulosṭop), বিন্দু (bn) (bindu)
• Bulgarian: то́чка (bg) f (tóčka)
• Burmese: (symbol) ။ (my), ၊ (my)
• Catalan: punt (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Chuvash: пӑнчӑ (pănč̬ă)
• Czech: tečka (cs) f
• Danish: punktum (da) n
• Dutch: punt (nl) m
• 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
• Indonesian: titik (id)
• 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
• Lü: ᦺᦙᧉᦉᦳᧆ (may²ṡud), ᦺᦙᧉᦅᧄᦉᦳᧆ (may²kamṡud)
• Macedonian: точка f (točka)
• Malay: noktah, titik
• Malayalam: പൂർണ്ണവിരാമം (pūṟṇṇavirāmaṃ)
• Maori: ira kati, kopi
• Mongolian: цэг (mn) (ceg)
• 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: нокта (tt) (noqta)
• 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, diweddnod m

See also

Punctuation

• apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
• curly brackets or braces (US) ( { } )
• square brackets or brackets (US) ( [ ] )
• colon ( : )
• comma ( , )
• dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
• ellipsis ( … )
• exclamation mark ( ! )
• fraction slash ( ⁄ )
• guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › )
• hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
• interpunct ( · )
• interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
• brackets or parentheses (US, Canada) ( ( ) )
• full stop or period (US, Canada) ( . )
• question mark ( ? )
• quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
• quotation marks (informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' )
• semicolon ( ; )
• slash or stroke (UK) ( / )
• space ( ] [ )

• hard stop

Interjection

full stop

1. (colloquial) Used to emphasize the end of an important statement or point when speaking to show something is not up for discussion or debate.

   We need more people to join IRC, full stop.

Synonyms

• (and nothing less): and that’s final, hard stop, 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