exclamation point
English
Noun
exclamation point (plural exclamation points)
- The symbol !; an exclamation mark.
- (figuratively) An elongated shape like an exclamation point.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, page 112:
- I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields […]. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, […]. My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation-point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the Sawmill at Beaverton.
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Synonyms
- See exclamation mark.
Derived terms
- inverted exclamation point
Translations
exclamation mark — see exclamation mark
See also
- ¡ (inverted exclamation mark/point)
- ‼ (double exclamation mark/point)
- ‽ (interrobang)
- ⁈
- ⁉
- ﹗ (small exclamation mark/point)
- ❢ (dingbat)
- ❣ (dingbat)
- ՜ (!) (Armenian)
- ᥄ (Limbu)
Punctuation
- apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
- curly brackets or braces (US) ( { } )
- square brackets or brackets (US) ( [ [[Unsupported titles/Right square bracket#Translingual|]]] )
- colon ( : )
- comma ( , )
- dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
- ellipsis ( … )
- exclamation mark ( ! )
- fraction slash ( ⁄ )
- guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › )
- hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
- interpunct ( · )
- interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
- brackets or parentheses (US, Canada) ( ( ) )
- full stop or period (US, Canada) ( . )
- question mark ( ? )
- quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
- quotation marks (informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' )
- semicolon ( ; )
- slash or stroke (UK) ( / )
- space ( )