Noun | 1. | ![]() Synonyms: period of time, time period |
2. | period - one of three periods of play in hockey games | |
3. | period - a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period" Synonyms: historic period, historical period | |
4. | period - the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon | |
5. | period - 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 emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle | |
6. | period - 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" | |
7. | period - a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods" Synonyms: geological period | |
8. | period - the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility" |