full stop

F f

Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
- [foo l stop]
- /fʊl stɒp/
- /fʊl stɒp/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [foo l stop]
- /fʊl stɒp/

Definitions of full stop words

noun full stop period (defs 10, 11). 1
noun full stop punctuation mark: period 1
noun full stop period: and that is that 1
noun full stop complete end of motion 1
countable noun full stop A full stop is the punctuation mark . which you use at the end of a sentence when it is not a question or exclamation. 0
noun full stop the punctuation mark (.) used at the end of a sentence that is not a question or exclamation, after abbreviations, etc 0

See all 7 definitions of full stop

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Origin of full stop

First appearance:

before 1590

One of the 37% oldest English words

First recorded in 1590-1600

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Full stop

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Full stop

full stop popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 42% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

According to our data about 56% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.

full stop usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for full stop

noun full stop

dot — a female given name, form of Dorothea and Dorothy.
period — a rather large interval of time that is meaningful in the life of a person, in history, etc., because of its particular characteristics: a period of illness; a period of great profitability for a company; a period of social unrest in Germany.
point — a fraction whose denominator is some power of 10, usually indicated by a dot (decimal point or point) written before the numerator: as 0.4 = 4/10; 0.126 = 126/1000.
decimal point — A decimal point is the dot in front of a decimal fraction.

All 4 Synonyms of full stop