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period > 8 senses
NOUN1period, time period, period of timeAn amount of time
2periodOne of three periods of play in hockey games
3period, historic period, historical periodA stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time
4periodThe interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
5period, menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, flowThe monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
6period, point, full stop, stop, full pointA punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
7period, geological periodA unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
8periodThe end or completion of something
period > pronunciation
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period > noun 1, time
MeaningAn amount of time.
Examples"a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
Synonymstime period, period of time
Narrowertrial period, test period; time frame; hours; downtime; uptime; work time; time off; hospitalization; travel time; time; elapsed time; duration, continuance; week, calendar week; field day; life, lifetime, lifespan; life; life; millennium; bimillennium, bimillenary; occupation; past; shelf life; puerperium; lactation; time of life; calendar day, civil day; festival; day, daytime, daylight; morning, morn, morning time, forenoon; night, nighttime, dark; night; night; night; eve; evening; week, hebdomad; fortnight, two weeks; weekend; Indian summer, Saint Martin's summer; year; school, schooltime, school day; year, twelvemonth, yr; year; semester; bimester; Olympiad; lustrum; decade, decennary, decennium; century; half-century; quarter-century; quarter; phase of the moon; day; calendar month, month; mid-January; mid-February; mid-March; mid-April; mid-May; mid-June; mid-July; mid-August; mid-September; mid-October; mid-November; mid-December; time limit; term; trimester; hour; silly season; Golden Age; silver age; bronze age; Bronze Age; iron age; Iron Age; Stone Age; Eolithic Age, Eolithic; Paleolithic Age, Paleolithic, Palaeolithic; Lower Paleolithic; Middle Paleolithic; Upper Paleolithic; Mesolithic Age, Mesolithic, Epipaleolithic; Neolithic Age, Neolithic, New Stone Age; great year, Platonic year; regulation time; overtime, extra time; season, time of year; dog days, canicule, canicular days; midwinter; season; season; long time, age, years; long run, long haul; drought; era, epoch; generation; prehistory, prehistoric culture; reign; run; youth, early days; dawn; evening; time; sleep, nap; lease, term of a contract; half life, half-life; tide, lunar time period; phase, stage; multistage; watch; peacetime; wartime; enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty, duty tour, tour; honeymoon; indiction; Depression, the Depression, the Great Depression; prohibition, prohibition era; incubation period; rainy day; novitiate, noviciate; flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush; running time; period, historic period, historical period; clotting time; air alert; question time; real time; real time; study hall; usance; window
Broaderfundamental quantity, fundamental measure
period > noun 2, time
MeaningOne of three periods of play in hockey games.
Broaderplaying period, period of play, play
period > noun 3, time
MeaningA stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time.
Examples"a novel from the Victorian period"
Synonymshistoric period, historical period
Broadertime period, period of time, period
period > noun 4, time
MeaningThe interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon.
Narrowerorbit period
Broadertime interval, interval
period > noun 5, process
MeaningThe monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause.
Synonymsmenstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, flow
Narrowermenorrhagia, hypermenorrhea; oligomenorrhea
Broaderdischarge, emission, expelling
period > noun 6, communication
MeaningA punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations.
Examples"in England they call a period a stop"
Synonymspoint, full stop, stop, full point
Narrowersuspension point
Broaderpunctuation, punctuation mark
period > noun 7, time
MeaningA unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed.
Examples"ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
Synonymsgeological period
Part ofera, geological era
Partsepoch
NarrowerQuaternary, Quaternary period, Age of Man; Tertiary, Tertiary period; Cretaceous, Cretaceous period; Jurassic, Jurassic period; Triassic, Triassic period; Permian, Permian period; Carboniferous, Carboniferous period; Pennsylvanian, Pennsylvanian period, Upper Carboniferous, Upper Carboniferous period; Mississippian, Missippian period, Lower Carboniferous, Lower Carboniferous period; Devonian, Devonian period, Age of Fishes; Silurian, Silurian period; Ordovician, Ordovician period; Cambrian, Cambrian period; ice age, glacial period, glacial epoch
Broadergeological time, geologic time
period > noun 8, time
MeaningThe end or completion of something.
Examples"death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
Broaderend, ending

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