period
English Dictionary
->
Letter P
-> period
Search Dictionary:
period Definition
(n)
an
amount
of
time
; "
a
time
period
of
30
years
"; "
hastened
the
period
of
time
of
his
recovery
"; "
Picasso
''
s
blue
period
"
(n)
one
of
three
periods
of
play
in
hockey
games
(n)
a
stage
in
the
history
of
a
culture
having
a
definable
place
in
space
and
time
; "
a
novel
from
the
Victorian
period
"
(n)
the
interval
taken
to
complete
one
cycle
of
a
regularly
repeating
phenomenon
(n)
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
(n)
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
"
(n)
a
unit
of
geological
time
during
which
a
system
of
rocks
formed
; "
ganoid
fishes
swarmed
during
the
earlier
geological
periods
"
(n)
the
end
or
completion
of
something
; "
death
put
a
period
to
his
endeavors
"; "
a
change
soon
put
a
period
to
my
tranquility
"
period Synonyms
catamenia
flow
full point
full stop
geological period
historic period
historical period
menses
menstruation
menstruum
period
period of time
point
stop
time period
© Art Branch Inc.