Period — synonyms, definition

1. period (Noun)

Menses Menstruation age alternation catamenia century continuance course cycle date day division duration epoch era extent flow full point full stop generation • • •

period (Noun) — An amount of time. ex. "a time period of 30 years" ex. "hastened the period of time of his recovery" ex. "Picasso's blue period"

period (Noun) — The interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon.

period (Noun) — (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games.

period (Noun) — A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed. ex. "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"

period (Noun) — The end or completion of something. ex. "death put a period to his endeavours" ex. "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"

period (Noun) — The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause.

period (Noun) — A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations.

discharge division emission end ending expelling fundamental measure fundamental quantity geologic time geological time interval part punctuation punctuation mark section time interval Age of Fishes Age of Man Cambrian Cambrian period Carboniferous Carboniferous period Cretaceous Cretaceous period Devonian Devonian period Eolithic Eolithic Age Epipaleolithic Great Schism Indian summer Jurassic Jurassic period Lower Carboniferous Lower Carboniferous period Lower Paleolithic • • • epoch era geological era period of play play playing period