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period

noun

1 period

An amount of time:
— A time period of 30 years.
— Hastened the period of time of his recovery.
— Picasso's blue period.

synonyms: period of time, time period.

Roget 106: time, duration; period, term, stage, space, span, spell, season; the whole time, the whole period; space-time; course ... show more

Roget 198: interval, interspace; separation etc. 44; break, gap, opening; hole etc. 260; chasm, hiatus, caesura; ... show more

Roget 108: period, age, era; second, minute, hour, day, week, month, quarter, year, decade, decenniumm lustrum, quinquennium, ... show more

Dutch: periode
Polish: pora, moment, okres, period, czas

2 period

The interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon.

Dutch: regels, ongesteldheid, maandstonden, menstruatie, maandbloeding
Polish: okres

3 period

ice hockey One of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games.

Polish: tercja

4 period

A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed:
— Ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods.

synonym: geological period.

Polish: okres

5 period

The end or completion of something.

6 period

The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause.

synonyms: catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, menstruum.

Roget 138: periodicity, intermittence; beat; oscillation etc. 314; pulse, pulsation; rhythm; alternation, alternateness, alternativeness, alternity.    bout, ... show more

Dutch: menstruatie
Polish: menstruacja, okres, krwawienie miesiączkowe, period, miesiączka

7 period

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: full point, full stop, point, stop.

Roget 550: indication; symbolism, symbolization; semiology, semiotics, semeiology, semeiotics; Zeitgeist.    [means of recognition: property] characteristic, diagnostic; lineament, feature, ... show more

Roget 142: cessation, discontinuance, desistance, desinence.    intermission, remission; suspense, suspension; interruption; stop; stopping etc. v.; closure, ... show more

Roget 71: term, rank, station, stage, step; degree etc. 26; scale, remove, grade, link, peg, round of the ladder, ... show more

Roget 67: end, close, termination; desinence, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega; extreme, ... show more

Dutch: oord, plaats, punt
Polish: kropka


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