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period
/'piriəd/
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Definitions of period
  1. noun
    an amount of time
    "a time period of 30 years" "hastened the period of time of his recovery" "Picasso's blue period"

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    period of time time period
  2. noun
    the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause

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    catamenia flow menses menstruation menstruum
  3. noun
    a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
    "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"

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    geological period
  4. noun
    a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
    "in England they call a period a stop"

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    full point full stop point stop
  5. noun
    (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
  6. noun
    the end or completion of something
    "death put a period to his endeavors" "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
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    end ending
  7. noun
    the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
Examples of period
  • "a time period of 30 years"
  • "hastened the period of time of his recovery"
  • "Picasso's blue period"
  • "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
  • "in England they call a period a stop"
  • "death put a period to his endeavors"
  • "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
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