stop sign

See also: stopsign

English

A stop sign in Australia

Alternative forms

• stopsign

Noun

stop sign (plural stop signs)

1. A sign by the side of a road or street, often at an intersection, instructing vehicle drivers to stop.
   • 1979, AC/DC, Highway to Hell:

     No stop signs, speed limit
     Nobody's gonna slow me down

Derived terms

• Texas stop sign

Related terms

• give way sign

Translations

traffic sign

• Afrikaans: stopteken
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can

  Moroccan: سطوب

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 停車讓行標誌 / 停车让行标志 (tíngchē ràngxíng biāozhì)

• Czech: stopka (cs)
• Dutch: stopbord (nl) n
• Esperanto: haltŝildo
• Finnish: stop-merkki
• French: arrêt (fr) m, stop (fr) m
• German: Stoppschild (de) n
• Greek: στοπ (el) n (stop)
• Hungarian: (informally) stoptábla (hu), (formally) „Állj! Elsőbbségadás kötelező” tábla
• Icelandic: stöðvunarmerki n
• Irish: comhartha stop m
• Japanese: 一時停止標識 (ichiji teishi hyōshiki)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stoppskilt n

  Nynorsk: stoppskilt n

• Polish: stop (pl) m
• Portuguese: stop (pt) m (Portugal), sinal de stop m (Portugal), placa de pare f (Brazil)
• Russian: движение без остановки запрещено (dviženije bez ostanovki zapreščeno)
• Spanish: señal de alto f, señal de stop f, señal de pare f, alto (es) m, pare (es) m
• Swedish: stoppskylt (sv), stoppmärke n
• Tagalog: babalang hinto
• Ukrainian: проїзд без зупинки заборонено (projizd bez zupynky zaboroneno)

Anagrams

• postings, sign-post, signpost, stopings