Definition of period

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  • period is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 9
  • period is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 9
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Definition of period

  • an amount of time (noun)

    Examples

    1. a time period of 30 years
    2. hastened the period of time of his recovery
    3. Picasso's blue period

    Synonyms

    1. period of time
    2. time period
  • the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. catamenia
    2. flow
    3. menses
    4. menstruation
    5. menstruum
  • a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed (noun)

    Examples

    1. ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods

    Synonyms

    1. geological period
  • a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations (noun)

    Examples

    1. in England they call a period a stop

    Synonyms

    1. full point
    2. full stop
    3. point
    4. stop
  • (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games (noun)
  • the end or completion of something (noun)

    Examples

    1. death put a period to his endeavors
    2. a change soon put a period to my tranquility
  • the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon (noun)

See definition of period in Merriam Webster