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English noun: full stop

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


SamplesIn England they call a period a stop.


Synonymsfull point, period, point, stop


Broader (hypernym)punctuation, punctuation mark


Narrower (hyponym)suspension point









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