"exclamation point" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Paul2520-exclamation point.wav Forms: exclamation points [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} exclamation point (plural exclamation points)
  1. (US) The symbol !; an exclamation mark. Tags: US Categories (topical): Punctuation marks
    Sense id: en-exclamation_point-en-noun-h4~oWwqb Disambiguation of Punctuation marks: 89 11 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 58 42 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 67 33 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 83 17
  2. (figurative) An elongated shape like an exclamation point. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-exclamation_point-en-noun-aiiBBsAy
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: exclamation mark Derived forms: inverted exclamation point
Related terms: ¡ (english: inverted exclamation mark/point), ‼ (english: double exclamation mark/point), (interrobang), ⁈, ⁉, ﹗ (english: small exclamation mark/point), ❢ (dingbat), ❣ (dingbat), ՜ (alt: !) [Armenian], ᥄ [Limbu], apostrophe (alt: '; ’), curly brackets, brace (alt: { }) [US], square bracket, bracket (alt: [ ]) [US], colon (alt: :), comma (alt: ,), dash (alt: ‒; –; —; ―), ellipsis (alt: ), exclamation mark (alt: !), fraction slash (alt: ), guillemet (alt: « »; ‹ ›), hyphen (alt: -; ‐), interpunct (alt: ·), interrobang (alt: ) [rare], bracket, parentheses (US, Canada) (alt: ( )), full stop, period (alt: .) [Canada, US], question mark (alt: ?), quotation marks (alt: ‘ ’ ‚; „) [formal], quotation marks (alt: "; ') [informal] [computing, engineering, mathematics, sciences, physical-sciences, natural-sciences], semicolon (alt: ;), slash, stroke (alt: /) [UK], space (alt: ] [)

Inflected forms

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