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NOUN | 1 | period, time period, period of time | An amount of time |
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2 | period | One of three periods of play in hockey games | |
3 | period, historic period, historical period | A stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time | |
4 | period | The interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon | |
5 | period, menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, flow | The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | |
6 | period, point, full stop, stop, full point | A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations | |
7 | period, geological period | A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed | |
8 | period | The end or completion of something |
Sounds | pih'riyahd |
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Rhymes | abbreviated, accepted, acid, and 390 more rhymes in ahd at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | An amount of time. |
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Examples | "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" |
Synonyms | time period, period of time |
Narrower | trial 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 |
Broader | fundamental quantity, fundamental measure |
Meaning | One of three periods of play in hockey games. |
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Broader | playing period, period of play, play |
Meaning | A stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time. |
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Examples | "a novel from the Victorian period" |
Synonyms | historic period, historical period |
Broader | time period, period of time, period |
Meaning | The interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon. |
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Narrower | orbit period |
Broader | time interval, interval |
Meaning | The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause. |
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Synonyms | menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, flow |
Narrower | menorrhagia, hypermenorrhea; oligomenorrhea |
Broader | discharge, emission, expelling |
Meaning | A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations. |
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Examples | "in England they call a period a stop" |
Synonyms | point, full stop, stop, full point |
Narrower | suspension point |
Broader | punctuation, punctuation mark |
Meaning | A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed. |
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Examples | "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods" |
Synonyms | geological period |
Part of | era, geological era |
Parts | epoch |
Narrower | Quaternary, 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 |
Broader | geological time, geologic time |
Meaning | The end or completion of something. |
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Examples | "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility" |
Broader | end, ending |