full stop
See also: fullstop
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌfʊl ˈstɒp/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
full stop (plural full stops)
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) The punctuation mark "." (indicating the end of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
- (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
- (decisive end) hard stop
Derived terms
Translations
The punctuation mark “.”
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See also
- 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) ( ( ) )
- or period (US, Canada) ( . )
- question mark ( ? )
- quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
- quotation marks (informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' )
- semicolon ( ; )
- slash or stroke (UK) ( / )
- space ( ] [ )
Interjection
- (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
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