PERIOD
Definition:
- [noun] an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
Synonyms: time of time
- [noun] one of three periods of play in hockey games
- [noun] a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period"
Synonyms: historic historical
- [noun] the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
- [noun] 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"
Synonyms: menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, flow
- [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"
Synonyms: point, full stop, stop, full point
- [noun] a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
Synonyms: geological
- [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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- trial period, test period
- time frame
- hours
- downtime
- uptime
- work time
- time off
- hospitalization
- travel time
- time
- elapsed time
- duration, continuance
- week, calendar week
- field day
- life, lifetime, lifespan
- life
- life
- millennium
- bimillennium, bimillenary
- occupation
- past
- shelf life
- puerperium
- lactation
- time of life
- calendar day, civil day
- festival
- day, daytime, daylight
- morning, morn, morning time, forenoon
- night, nighttime, dark
- night
- night
- night
- eve
- evening
- week, hebdomad
- fortnight, two weeks
- weekend
- Indian summer, Saint Martin's summer
- year
- school, schooltime, school day
- year, twelvemonth, yr
- year
- semester
- bimester
- Olympiad
- lustrum
- decade, decennary, decennium
- century
- half-century
- quarter-century
- quarter
- phase of the moon
- day
- calendar month, month
- mid-January
- mid-February
- mid-March
- mid-April
- mid-May
- mid-June
- mid-July
- mid-August
- mid-September
- mid-October
- mid-November
- mid-December
- time limit
- term
- trimester
- hour
- silly season
- Golden Age
- silver age
- bronze age
- Bronze Age
- iron age
- Iron Age
- Stone Age
- Eolithic Age, Eolithic
- Paleolithic Age, Paleolithic, Palaeolithic
- Lower Paleolithic
- Middle Paleolithic
- Upper Paleolithic
- Mesolithic Age, Mesolithic, Epipaleolithic
- Neolithic Age, Neolithic, New Stone Age
- great year, Platonic year
- regulation time
- overtime, extra time
- season, time of year
- dog days, canicule, canicular days
- midwinter
- season
- season
- long time, age, years
- long run, long haul
- drought
- era, epoch
- generation
- prehistory, prehistoric culture
- reign
- run
- youth, early days
- dawn
- evening
- time
- sleep, nap
- lease, term of a contract
- half life, half-life
- tide, lunar time period
- phase, stage
- multistage
- watch
- peacetime
- wartime
- enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty, duty tour, tour
- honeymoon
- indiction
- Depression, the Depression, the Great Depression
- prohibition, prohibition era
- incubation period
- rainy day
- novitiate, noviciate
- flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush
- running time
- period, historic period, historical period
- clotting time
- air alert
- question time
- real time
- real time
- study hall
- usance
- window
- orbit period
- menorrhagia, hypermenorrhea
- oligomenorrhea
- suspension point
- Quaternary, Quaternary period, Age of Man
- Tertiary, Tertiary period
- Cretaceous, Cretaceous period
- Jurassic, Jurassic period
- Triassic, Triassic period
- Permian, Permian period
- Carboniferous, Carboniferous period
- Pennsylvanian, Pennsylvanian period, Upper Carboniferous, Upper Carboniferous period
- Mississippian, Missippian period, Lower Carboniferous, Lower Carboniferous period
- Devonian, Devonian period, Age of Fishes
- Silurian, Silurian period
- Ordovician, Ordovician period
- Cambrian, Cambrian period
- ice age, glacial period, glacial epoch
