🇬🇧 Period meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A period is a small dot that you put at the very end of a sentence to show that the sentence is finished. You also use a period at the end of some shortened words, like “Dr.” for “Doctor.” It tells the reader, “Stop here, take a breath, this thought is done.”

I ended my sentence with three exclamation marks, and the period filed a complaint for being ignored.

My dad said he’d stop talking after one sentence, but he forgot the period and just kept going.

The period is like the “off” button for sentences: press it once and everything quiets down.

In British English a period is often called a “full stop,” which sounds like it’s yelling at the sentence to completely freeze.

The lonely period sat at the end of the sentence whispering, “Everybody stop talking now.”

A girl writes a sentence, frowns, then taps the pen to add a period. She practices one period after each short word, then another period to finish a line. Each careful period looks like a tiny dot on white paper. When she draws the last period, she breathes out, smiles, and closes her notebook.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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