period

Meanings

• an amount of time
  • "a time period of 30 years"
  • "hastened the period of time of his recovery"
  • "Picasso's blue period"
• the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
• (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
• a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
  • "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
• the end or completion of something
  • "death put a period to his endeavors"
  • "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
• the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; ; --Hippocrates; --Aristotle
• 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

catamenia, flow, full point, full stop, geological period, menses, menstruation, menstruum, period of time, point, stop, time period