Meaning & Definition of Period in English
English⟶
Period
/pɪriəd/
noun
1. An amount of time
- "A time period of 30 years"
- "Hastened the period of time of his recovery"
- "Picasso's blue period"
synonym:
- time period,
- period of time,
- period
2. The interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
synonym:
- period
3. (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
synonym:
- period
4. A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
- "Ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
synonym:
- period,
- geological period
5. The end or completion of something
- "Death put a period to his endeavors"
- "A change soon put a period to my tranquility"
synonym:
- period
6. 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
synonym:
- menstruation,
- menses,
- menstruum,
- catamenia,
- period,
- flow
7. 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"
synonym:
- period,
- point,
- full stop,
- stop,
- full point
Examples of using
Last year was a period of economic uncertainty.
A study has shown that dairy cattle can increase their milk production by up to three percent after having soothing music played to them for twelve hours per day over a nine-week period.
That was a difficult period in American history.