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point virgule

French, noun

point virgule is a French masculine noun meaning “semicolon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, point-virgule is a different word: “semicolon (punctuation mark)”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante de point-virgule”.

What does point virgule mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinesemicolon

noun

as point-virgule
  1. 1

    masculinesemicolon (punctuation mark)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Signe de ponctuation ‹ ; › de la forme d’une virgule avec un point suscrit.<, utilisé au sein d’une phrase autant pour séparer que pour lier deux propositions. 2. Le même signe de ponctuation, servant spécifiquement à clore chaque instruction dans certains programmes, notamment ceux en langage informatique C.

noun: 1. Variante de point-virgule.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of point virgule

  • points-virgules plural
  • points virgules plural
  • point virgule rare obsolete

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to point virgule

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.