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exclamation points

exclamation points is the plural of exclamation point.

Meaning of exclamation point

Noun

exclamation point (plural exclamation points)

  1. (US) The symbol !; an exclamation mark.
  2. (figuratively) An elongated shape like an exclamation point.
    • 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...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, page 112

Questions about exclamation points

What is exclamation points the plural of?
Exclamation points is the plural of exclamation point.

Words near exclamation points in the dictionary

  1. exclam
  2. exclamation
  3. exclamation mark
  4. exclamation marks
  5. exclamation point
  6. exclamation points
  7. exclamational
  8. exclamations
  9. exclamative
  10. exclamative marker
  11. exclamatively

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