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period::noun | Spocien Dictionary

period
noun
/'piriəd/
an amount of time
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.

period::noun | Spocien Dictionary

period
noun
/'piriəd/
the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
Type Words
Synonyms catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, menstruum
Type of emission, expelling, discharge
Has types oligomenorrhea, hypermenorrhea, menorrhagia

period::noun | Spocien Dictionary

period
noun
/'piriəd/
a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
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.

period::noun | Spocien Dictionary

period
noun
/'piriəd/
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
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.

period::noun | Spocien Dictionary

period
noun
/'piriəd/
(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
Type Words
Type of section, division, part

period::noun | Spocien Dictionary

period
noun
/'piriəd/
the end or completion of something
Type Words
Type of end, ending


death put a period to his endeavors.
a change soon put a period to my tranquility.

period::noun | Spocien Dictionary

period
noun
/'piriəd/
the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
Type Words
Type of interval, time interval
Has types orbit period
Derivation periodical
LeafTensor is a decentralized system.