An exclamation mark is the sign ! which is used in writing to show that a word, phrase, or sentence is an exclamation.
[British]regional note: in AM, use exclamation point
English Easy Learning GrammarThe exclamation mark ( ! )The exclamation mark is used after exclamations and emphatic expressions. I can’t believe it! Oh, no! Look at this mess! The exclamation mark loses its ... Read more
exclamation mark in British English
or US exclamation point
noun
1.
the punctuation mark ! used after exclamations and vehement commands
2.
this mark used for any other purpose, as to draw attention to an obvious mistake, in road warning signs, (in chess commentaries) beside the notation of a move considered a good one, (in mathematics) as a symbol of the factorial function, or (in logic) occurring with an existential quantifier
Examples of 'exclamation mark' in a sentence
exclamation mark
He'd awarded my Tacitus essay sixty-three per cent with an exclamation mark.
David Cavanagh MUSIC FOR BOYS (2003)
(We've gone a bit exclamation mark crazy recently, I think because of some ironic, or even post-ironic, Japanese connection.
Scarlett Thomas POPCO (2003)
In other languages
exclamation mark
British English: exclamation mark /ˌɛkskləˈmeɪʃən mɑːk/ NOUN