full stop

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noun

period(defs 10, 11).

Origin of full stop

First recorded in 1590–1600

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Related Words for full stop

dot, period, point

Examples from the Web for full stop

Historical Examples of full stop

But perhaps it is to the full-stop at presents that the "that's my thunder!"
Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853
Various
Have you anything in view, dear, if we come to a full-stop here?
Poppy
Cynthia Stockley
The full-stop bacillus for choice—put you sooner out of your agony.
The Return of the Prodigal
May Sinclair
Of course there is really no such thing as a full-stop in art any more than there is in nature.
Since Czanne
Clive Bell
After the word "auctorum" there is a full-stop, breaking the grammatical construction just as that after "confecti" does.
Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 110, December 6, 1851
Various

British Dictionary definitions for full stop

full stop

full point

noun

the punctuation mark (.) used at the end of a sentence that is not a question or exclamation, after abbreviations, etcAlso called (esp US and Canadian): period

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