Phrase guide

full stop

intj · noun · verb · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˌfʊl ˈstɒp/
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1

intj

Meaning 1

Used to emphasize the end of an important statement or point when speaking to show something is not up for discussion or debate.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: colloquial

Examples

  • We need more people to join IRC, full stop.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩ (indicating the end of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A decisive end to something.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A complete stop.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

Alternative form of full-stop.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • in England they call a period a stop

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: period, point, stop, full point

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: punctuation, punctuation mark

Narrower terms: suspension point

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

132 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Finnish: piste — Interjection
  • Finnish: ja piste — Interjection
  • French: un point c’est tout — Interjection
  • French: point — Interjection
  • French: point final — Interjection
  • German: Schluss, aus, Ende — Interjection
  • German: Punkt. Aus. Ende — Interjection
  • German: keine Widerrede — Interjection
  • German: basta — Interjection
  • German: und damit basta — Interjection
  • German: da ist nichts zu machen — Interjection
  • German: Punktum — Interjection
  • Greek: τελεία και παύλα (teleía kai pávla) — Interjection
  • Portuguese: ponto final — Interjection
  • Russian: и то́чка (i tóčka) — Interjection
  • Spanish: punto final — Interjection
  • Spanish: y punto — Interjection
  • Swedish: och därmed basta! — Interjection
  • Swedish: punkt slut — Interjection
  • Albanian: pikë — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Arabic: نُقْطَة (nuqṭa) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Arabic: عَلَامَة فَصْلِيَّة (ʕalāma faṣliyya) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Armenian: վերջակետ (verǰaket) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Armenian: ։ — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Armenian: կետ (ket) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Assamese: দাৰি (dari) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Assamese: । — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Azerbaijani: nöqtə — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Bashkir: нөктә (nöktə) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Belarusian: кро́пка (krópka) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Bengali: দাঁড়ি (dãṛi) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Bengali: বিন্দু (bindu) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Bengali: । — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Bulgarian: то́чка (tóčka) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Burmese: ။ — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Burmese: ၊ — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Carpathian Rusyn: то́чка (tóčka) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Catalan: punt — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Chinese Mandarin: 句號 /句号 (jùhào) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Chinese Mandarin: 句點 /句点 (jùdiǎn) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Chinese Mandarin: 。 — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Chuvash: пӑнчӑ (pănč̬ă) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Czech: tečka — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Danish: punktum — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Dutch: punt — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Esperanto: punkto — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Estonian: punkt — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Finnish: piste — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • French: point — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Georgian: წერტილი (c̣erṭili) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • German: Punkt — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Greek: τελεία (teleía) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Hebrew: נְקֻדָּה (n'kudá) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Hindi: दंड (daṇḍ) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Hindi: । — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Hindi: पूर्णविराम (pūrṇavirām) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Hindi: बिंदु (bindu) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Hungarian: pont — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Icelandic: punktur — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Indonesian: titik — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Irish: lánstad — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Irish: ponc — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Italian: punto — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Japanese: 句点 (kuten) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Japanese: 終止符 (shūshifu) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Japanese: 。 — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Japanese: ピリオド (piriodo) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Kalmyk: цег (tseg) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Kazakh: нүкте (nükte) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Korean: 마침표 (machimpyo) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Northern Kurdish: niqte — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Northern Kurdish: xal — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Kyrgyz: чекит (cekit) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Kyrgyz: точка (tocka) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Lakota: wóihaŋke — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Lao: ຈຸດ (chut) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Latvian: punkts — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Lithuanian: taškas — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • : ᦺᦙᧉᦉᦳᧆ (may2ṡud) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • : ᦺᦙᧉᦅᧄᦉᦳᧆ (may2kamṡud) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Macedonian: точка (točka) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Malay: noktah — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Malay: titik — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Malayalam: പൂർണ്ണവിരാമം (pūṟṇṇavirāmaṁ) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Māori: ira kati — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Māori: kopi — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Mongolian: цэг (ceg) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Mongolian: ᠴᠡᠭ (čeg) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Norman: point — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Norwegian Bokmål: punktum — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: punktum — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Pashto: نقطه (noqta) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Dari: نُقْطَه (nuqta) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Iranian Persian: نُقْطِه (noġte) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Polish: kropka — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Portuguese: ponto — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Romanian: punct — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Russian: то́чка (tóčka) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Sanskrit: दंड (daṃḍa) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Sanskrit: । — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Scottish Gaelic: stad-phuing — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Serbo-Croatian: та̏чка — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Serbo-Croatian: то̏чка — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Serbo-Croatian: tȁčka — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Serbo-Croatian: tȍčka — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Slovak: bodka — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Slovene: pika — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Spanish: punto — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Spanish: punto final — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Swedish: punkt — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Tajik: нуқта (nuqta) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Tamil: முற்றுப்புள்ளி (muṟṟuppuḷḷi) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Tatar: нокта (noqta) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Telugu: చుక్క (cukka) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Thai: มหัพภาค (má-hàp-pâak) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Thai: จุด (jùt) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Thai: พินทุ (pin-tú) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Turkish: nokta — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Turkmen: nokat — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Ukrainian: кра́пка (krápka) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Ukrainian: то́чка (tóčka) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Urdu: نُقْطَہ (nuqta) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Urdu: خَتْمَہ (xatma) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Urdu: ۔ — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Uyghur: نۇقتا (nuqta) — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Uzbek: nuqta — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Vietnamese: dấu chấm — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Welsh: atalnod llawn — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Welsh: diweddnod — The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩
  • Spanish: parón — (figurative) A decisive end to something.
  • Spanish: punto final — (figurative) A decisive end to something.
  • Tamil: முற்றுப்புள்ளி (muṟṟuppuḷḷi) — (figurative) A decisive end to something.