full stop

What does full stop mean?

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

What is another word for full stop?

Close synonyms include period, point, stop, full point. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is full stop a common word?

full stop is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for full stop come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.