exclamation marknoun [ C ]
uk/ek.skləˈmeɪ.ʃən ˌmɑːk/us/ek.skləˈmeɪ.ʃən ˌmɑːrk/UK US exclamation pointB2 the symbol ! written immediately after an exclamation
Examples
- She uses a lot of exclamation marks in her emails.
- The letter was peppered with exclamation marks.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Punctuation
- ampersand
- asterisk
- caron
- cedilla
- dash
- ditto
- ellipsis
- grave (accent)
- guillemet
- hyphen
- hyphenate
- lower case
- parentheses
- period
- punctuation
- punctuation mark
- question mark
- quotation marks
- tilde
- upper case
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Examples from literature
- You can't just place two spaces after every period, question-mark and exclamation mark, since periods are also used for abbreviations end ellipses, and question-marks and exclamation-marks don't always end sentences.