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full_stop

full stop

See also: fullstop and full-stop

English

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

Translations

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