dot

CEFRA2

/dɒt/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A very small round mark or spot.

  2. 02

    verb

    To mark with small spots or points.

Examples

  • Be at the station at eleven on the dot.

  • Will you put a dot before the names of the successful students?

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.

  2. A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.

  3. A small, round spot.

More examples

In context

  • The homepage of English Wiktionary is en.wiktionary.org. [read aloud: E-N-dot-wiktionary-dot-org]

  • a dot of a child

  • a dot of colour

Synonyms

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She placed a small blank on the letter i to complete it.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English *dot, dotte, from Old English dott (“a dot, point”), from Proto-West Germanic *dott, from Proto-Germanic *duttaz (“wisp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dot, Dotte (“a clump”), Dutch dot (“lump, knot, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”), dialectal Swedish dott (“a little heap, bunch, clump”).