period

/pˈɪɹiəd/ · 3 syllables

Meaning

noun

1. an amount of time
   “a time period of 30 years”
2. the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
3. (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
4. a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
   “ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods”
5. the end or completion of something
   “death put a period to his endeavors”
6. the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause--Hippocrates--Aristotle
   “the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation”
7. 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 for period

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

Words that rhyme with period

• myriad