English
Noun
full stop (plural full stops)
- (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
See also
Punctuation
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
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Interjection
full stop
- (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
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