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dot

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"Period mark"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /dɒt/Part of speech verb, nounSorted dotStarts with DEnds with T8 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Small round mark, spot, or point.

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • “a dot of colour”
  • “Long stood Sir Bedivere / Revolving many memories, till the hull / Look’d one black dot against the verge of dawn / And on the mere the wailing died away.”
  • “THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO A VERY SMALL DOT IN A VERY BIG UNIVERSE”

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer8 curated clues

01“Period mark”3 letters
02“Period-shaped mark”3 letters
03“Small point mark”3 letters
04“Small printed mark”3 letters
05“Small round mark”3 letters
06“Tiny printed point”3 letters
07“Tiny round mark”3 letters
08“Pixel”3 letters

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