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Type Words
Synonyms period of time, time period
Type of fundamental measure, fundamental quantity
Has types bimester, bimillenary, bimillennium, bloom, blossom, bout, yr, air alert, multistage, nap, night, nighttime, noviciate, novitiate, occupation, olympiad, overtime, past, peacetime, peak, phase, phase of the moon, platonic year, prehistoric culture, prehistory, prime, prohibition, prohibition era, puerperium, quadrennium, quarter, quarter-century, question time, quinquennium, rainy day, real time, regulation time, reign, run, running time, saint martin's summer, school, school day, schooltime, season, semester, shelf life, silly season, silver age, sleep, stage, study hall, term, term of a contract, term of enlistment, test period, tide, time, time frame, time limit, time of life, time of year, time off, times, tour, tour of duty, travel time, trial period, trimester, twelvemonth, two weeks, uptime, usance, wartime, watch, week, weekend, window, work time, year, years, youth, age, bronze age, calendar day, calendar month, calendar week, canicular days, canicule, century, civil day, clotting time, continuance, dark, dawn, day, daylight, daytime, decade, decennary, decennium, dog days, downtime, drought, drouth, duration, duty tour, early days, efflorescence, elapsed time, enlistment, epoch, era, eve, evening, extra time, festival, field day, flower, flush, forenoon, fortnight, generation, golden age, grace, grace period, great year, half-century, half-life, half life, hebdomad, heyday, hitch, honeymoon, hospitalization, hour, hours, incubation period, indian summer, indiction, iron age, lactation, lease, life, life-time, lifespan, lifetime, long haul, long run, long time, lunar time period, lustrum, mid-april, mid-august, mid-december, mid-february, mid-january, mid-july, mid-june, mid-march, mid-may, mid-november, mid-october, mid-september, midweek, midwinter, millenary, millennium, month, morn, morning, morning time


a time period of 30 years.
hastened the period of time of his recovery.
Picasso's blue period.
Type Words
Synonyms catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, menstruum
Type of emission, expelling, discharge
Has types oligomenorrhea, hypermenorrhea, menorrhagia
Type Words
Synonyms geological period
Type of geologic time, geological time
Has types ice age, glacial epoch, glacial period


ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods.
Type Words
Synonyms full point, full stop, point, stop
Type of punctuation, punctuation mark
Has types suspension point


in England they call a period a stop.
Type Words
Type of section, division, part
Type Words
Type of end, ending


death put a period to his endeavors.
a change soon put a period to my tranquility.
Type Words
Type of interval, time interval
Has types orbit period
Derivation periodical

Examples of period

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That's a period when we first started being known as the Monsters of the Midway.
From the dailyherald.com
The Wildcats outscored the Bears 16-4 in the period led by senior Savanna Trees.
From the dailyherald.com
The third period was scoreless, but not for a lack of trying on Portland's part.
From the thenewstribune.com
Wright provided a spark for the Spartans before fouling out in the third period.
From the thenewstribune.com
In the first period, Team South got things going by burying its rebound chances.
From the bostonherald.com
He was then pulled for sophomore backup Parker Milner to start the third period.
From the bostonherald.com
The shekel has gained more than 5 percent against the dollar in the same period.
From the bloomberg.com
In the first half of 2008, Starbucks was entering a tremendously chaotic period.
From the newsweek.com
Anthony Maiani and Beau Bennett followed for a 3-1 Denver lead after one period.
From the denverpost.com
More examples
  • Time period: an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
  • The interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
  • (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
  • A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
  • The end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
  • Menstruation: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be ...
  • The menstrual cycle is a series of physiological changes that can occur in fertile females. Overt menstruation (where there is blood flow from the uterus through the vagina) occurs primarily in humans and close evolutionary relatives such as chimpanzees. ...
  • Period (per) is a gene in Drosophila which encodes a protein, PER, regulating circadian rhythm. There are some known alleles of the per gene that can make the circadian cycle longer or shorter than the usual cycle (which is around 24 hours). It is still uncertain how exactly this gene operates.
  • The geologic time scale provides a system of chronologic measurement relating stratigraphy to time that is used by geologists, paleontologists and other earth scientists to describe the timing and relationships between events that have occurred during the history of the Earth. ...