FULL STOP

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

Example:

in England they call a period a stop

Synonyms:

full point; full stop; period; point; stop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("full stop" is a kind of...):

punctuation; punctuation mark (the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "full stop"):

suspension point ((usually plural) one of a series of points indicating that something has been omitted or that the sentence is incomplete)