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period > 8 senses
NOUN	1	period, time period, period of time	An amount of time
	2	period	One of three periods of play in hockey games
	3	period, historic period, historical period	A stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time
	4	period	The interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
	5	period, menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, flow	The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
	6	period, point, full stop, stop, full point	A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
	7	period, geological period	A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
	8	period	The end or completion of something

period > pronunciation
Sounds	pih'riyahd
Rhymes	abbreviated, accepted, acid, and 377 more rhymes in ahd...

period > noun 1, time
Meaning	An amount of time.
Examples	"a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
Synonyms	time period, period of time
Broader	fundamental quantity, fundamental measure
Narrower	trial period, test period; time frame; hours; downtime; uptime; work time; time off; bout; hospitalization; travel time; times; time; elapsed time; duration, continuance; week, calendar week; midweek; field day; life, lifetime, life-time, lifespan; life; life; millennium, millenary; 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; quadrennium; quinquennium; 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; iron 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, drouth; 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; 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
Instances	Bronze 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 Schism

period > noun 2, time
Meaning	One of three periods of play in hockey games.
Broader	playing period, period of play, play

period > noun 3, time
Meaning	A stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time.
Examples	"a novel from the Victorian period"
Synonyms	historic period, historical period
Broader	time period, period of time, period

period > noun 4, time
Meaning	The interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon.
Broader	time interval, interval
Narrower	orbit period
Adjectives	periodical

period > noun 5, process
Meaning	The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause.
Synonyms	menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, flow
Broader	discharge, emission, expelling
Narrower	menorrhagia, hypermenorrhea; oligomenorrhea

period > noun 6, communication
Meaning	A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations.
Examples	"in England they call a period a stop"
Synonyms	point, full stop, stop, full point
Broader	punctuation, punctuation mark
Narrower	suspension point

period > noun 7, time
Meaning	A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed.
Examples	"ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
Synonyms	geological period
Part of	era, geological era
Parts	epoch
Broader	geological time, geologic time
Narrower	ice age, glacial period, glacial epoch
Instances	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

period > noun 8, time
Meaning	The end or completion of something.
Examples	"death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
Broader	end, ending

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