PERIOD as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
   Synonym(s)
   • full point (what does full point mean?)
   • full stop (what does full stop mean?)
   • point (what does point mean?)
   • stop (what does stop mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • in England they call a period a stop
   Hypernyms(s) period is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • punctuation (what does punctuation mean?)
   • punctuation mark (what does punctuation mark mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • suspension point (what does suspension point mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • point (what does point mean?)
   • point (what does point mean?)
   • point (what does point mean?)
2. Meaning
   • the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
   Synonym(s)
   • catamenia (what does catamenia mean?)
   • flow (what does flow mean?)
   • menses (what does menses mean?)
   • menstruation (what does menstruation mean?)
   • menstruum (what does menstruum mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • 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
   Hypernyms(s) period is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • discharge (what does discharge mean?)
   • emission (what does emission mean?)
   • expelling (what does expelling mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • menorrhagia (what does menorrhagia mean?)
   • hypermenorrhea (what does hypermenorrhea mean?)
   • oligomenorrhea (what does oligomenorrhea mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • menstruate (what does menstruate mean?)
   • flow (what does flow mean?)
   • menstruate (what does menstruate mean?)
   • flow (what does flow mean?)
3. Meaning
   • an amount of time
   Synonym(s)
   • period of time (what does period of time mean?)
   • time period (what does time period mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • a time period of 30 years
   • hastened the period of time of his recovery
   • Picasso’’s blue period
   Hypernyms(s) period is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • fundamental quantity (what does fundamental quantity mean?)
   • fundamental measure (what does fundamental measure mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • trial period (what does trial period mean?)
   • test period (what does test period mean?)
   • time frame (what does time frame mean?)
   • hours (what does hours mean?)
   • downtime (what does downtime mean?)
   • uptime (what does uptime mean?)
   • work time (what does work time mean?)
   • time off (what does time off mean?)
   • hospitalization (what does hospitalization mean?)
   • travel time (what does travel time mean?)
   • time (what does time mean?)
   • elapsed time (what does elapsed time mean?)
   • duration (what does duration mean?)
   • continuance (what does continuance mean?)
   • week (what does week mean?)
   • calendar week (what does calendar week mean?)
   • field day (what does field day mean?)
   • life (what does life mean?)
   • lifetime (what does lifetime mean?)
   • lifespan (what does lifespan mean?)
   • life (what does life mean?)
   • life (what does life mean?)
   • millennium (what does millennium mean?)
   • bimillennium (what does bimillennium mean?)
   • bimillenary (what does bimillenary mean?)
   • occupation (what does occupation mean?)
   • past (what does past mean?)
   • shelf life (what does shelf life mean?)
   • puerperium (what does puerperium mean?)
   • lactation (what does lactation mean?)
   • time of life (what does time of life mean?)
   • calendar day (what does calendar day mean?)
   • civil day (what does civil day mean?)
   • festival (what does festival mean?)
   • day (what does day mean?)
   • daytime (what does daytime mean?)
   • daylight (what does daylight mean?)
   • morning (what does morning mean?)
   • morn (what does morn mean?)
   • morning time (what does morning time mean?)
   • forenoon (what does forenoon mean?)
   • night (what does night mean?)
   • nighttime (what does nighttime mean?)
   • dark (what does dark mean?)
   • night (what does night mean?)
   • night (what does night mean?)
   • night (what does night mean?)
   • eve (what does eve mean?)
   • evening (what does evening mean?)
   • week (what does week mean?)
   • hebdomad (what does hebdomad mean?)
   • fortnight (what does fortnight mean?)
   • two weeks (what does two weeks mean?)
   • weekend (what does weekend mean?)
   • Indian summer (what does Indian summer mean?)
   • Saint Martin’s summer (what does Saint Martin’s summer mean?)
   • year (what does year mean?)
   • school (what does school mean?)
   • schooltime (what does schooltime mean?)
   • school day (what does school day mean?)
   • year (what does year mean?)
   • twelvemonth (what does twelvemonth mean?)
   • yr (what does yr mean?)
   • year (what does year mean?)
   • semester (what does semester mean?)
   • bimester (what does bimester mean?)
   • Olympiad (what does Olympiad mean?)
   • lustrum (what does lustrum mean?)
   • decade (what does decade mean?)
   • decennary (what does decennary mean?)
   • decennium (what does decennium mean?)
   • century (what does century mean?)
   • half-century (what does half-century mean?)
   • quarter-century (what does quarter-century mean?)
   • quarter (what does quarter mean?)
   • phase of the moon (what does phase of the moon mean?)
   • day (what does day mean?)
   • calendar month (what does calendar month mean?)
   • month (what does month mean?)
   • mid-January (what does mid-January mean?)
   • mid-February (what does mid-February mean?)
   • mid-March (what does mid-March mean?)
   • mid-April (what does mid-April mean?)
   • mid-May (what does mid-May mean?)
   • mid-June (what does mid-June mean?)
   • mid-July (what does mid-July mean?)
   • mid-August (what does mid-August mean?)
   • mid-September (what does mid-September mean?)
   • mid-October (what does mid-October mean?)
   • mid-November (what does mid-November mean?)
   • mid-December (what does mid-December mean?)
   • time limit (what does time limit mean?)
   • term (what does term mean?)
   • trimester (what does trimester mean?)
   • hour (what does hour mean?)
   • silly season (what does silly season mean?)
   • Golden Age (what does Golden Age mean?)
   • silver age (what does silver age mean?)
   • bronze age (what does bronze age mean?)
   • Bronze Age (what does Bronze Age mean?)
   • iron age (what does iron age mean?)
   • Iron Age (what does Iron Age mean?)
   • Stone Age (what does Stone Age mean?)
   • Eolithic Age (what does Eolithic Age mean?)
   • Eolithic (what does Eolithic mean?)
   • Paleolithic Age (what does Paleolithic Age mean?)
   • Paleolithic (what does Paleolithic mean?)
   • Palaeolithic (what does Palaeolithic mean?)
   • Lower Paleolithic (what does Lower Paleolithic mean?)
   • Middle Paleolithic (what does Middle Paleolithic mean?)
   • Upper Paleolithic (what does Upper Paleolithic mean?)
   • Mesolithic Age (what does Mesolithic Age mean?)
   • Mesolithic (what does Mesolithic mean?)
   • Epipaleolithic (what does Epipaleolithic mean?)
   • Neolithic Age (what does Neolithic Age mean?)
   • Neolithic (what does Neolithic mean?)
   • New Stone Age (what does New Stone Age mean?)
   • great year (what does great year mean?)
   • Platonic year (what does Platonic year mean?)
   • regulation time (what does regulation time mean?)
   • overtime (what does overtime mean?)
   • extra time (what does extra time mean?)
   • season (what does season mean?)
   • time of year (what does time of year mean?)
   • dog days (what does dog days mean?)
   • canicule (what does canicule mean?)
   • canicular days (what does canicular days mean?)
   • midwinter (what does midwinter mean?)
   • season (what does season mean?)
   • season (what does season mean?)
   • long time (what does long time mean?)
   • age (what does age mean?)
   • years (what does years mean?)
   • long run (what does long run mean?)
   • long haul (what does long haul mean?)
   • drought (what does drought mean?)
   • era (what does era mean?)
   • epoch (what does epoch mean?)
   • generation (what does generation mean?)
   • prehistory (what does prehistory mean?)
   • prehistoric culture (what does prehistoric culture mean?)
   • reign (what does reign mean?)
   • run (what does run mean?)
   • youth (what does youth mean?)
   • early days (what does early days mean?)
   • dawn (what does dawn mean?)
   • evening (what does evening mean?)
   • time (what does time mean?)
   • sleep (what does sleep mean?)
   • nap (what does nap mean?)
   • lease (what does lease mean?)
   • term of a contract (what does term of a contract mean?)
   • half life (what does half life mean?)
   • half-life (what does half-life mean?)
   • tide (what does tide mean?)
   • lunar time period (what does lunar time period mean?)
   • phase (what does phase mean?)
   • stage (what does stage mean?)
   • multistage (what does multistage mean?)
   • watch (what does watch mean?)
   • peacetime (what does peacetime mean?)
   • wartime (what does wartime mean?)
   • enlistment (what does enlistment mean?)
   • hitch (what does hitch mean?)
   • term of enlistment (what does term of enlistment mean?)
   • tour of duty (what does tour of duty mean?)
   • duty tour (what does duty tour mean?)
   • tour (what does tour mean?)
   • honeymoon (what does honeymoon mean?)
   • indiction (what does indiction mean?)
   • Depression (what does Depression mean?)
   • the Depression (what does the Depression mean?)
   • the Great Depression (what does the Great Depression mean?)
   • prohibition (what does prohibition mean?)
   • prohibition era (what does prohibition era mean?)
   • incubation period (what does incubation period mean?)
   • rainy day (what does rainy day mean?)
   • novitiate (what does novitiate mean?)
   • noviciate (what does noviciate mean?)
   • flower (what does flower mean?)
   • prime (what does prime mean?)
   • peak (what does peak mean?)
   • heyday (what does heyday mean?)
   • bloom (what does bloom mean?)
   • blossom (what does blossom mean?)
   • efflorescence (what does efflorescence mean?)
   • flush (what does flush mean?)
   • running time (what does running time mean?)
   • period (what does period mean?)
   • historic period (what does historic period mean?)
   • historical period (what does historical period mean?)
   • clotting time (what does clotting time mean?)
   • air alert (what does air alert mean?)
   • question time (what does question time mean?)
   • real time (what does real time mean?)
   • real time (what does real time mean?)
   • study hall (what does study hall mean?)
   • usance (what does usance mean?)
   • window (what does window mean?)
4. Meaning
   • the end or completion of something
   Usage Example(s)
   • death put a period to his endeavors
   • a change soon put a period to my tranquility
   Hypernyms(s) period is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • end (what does end mean?)
   • ending (what does ending mean?)
5. Meaning
   • a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
   Synonym(s)
   • geological period (what does geological period mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods
   Hypernyms(s) period is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • geological time (what does geological time mean?)
   • geologic time (what does geologic time mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • Quaternary (what does Quaternary mean?)
   • Quaternary period (what does Quaternary period mean?)
   • Age of Man (what does Age of Man mean?)
   • Tertiary (what does Tertiary mean?)
   • Tertiary period (what does Tertiary period mean?)
   • Cretaceous (what does Cretaceous mean?)
   • Cretaceous period (what does Cretaceous period mean?)
   • Jurassic (what does Jurassic mean?)
   • Jurassic period (what does Jurassic period mean?)
   • Triassic (what does Triassic mean?)
   • Triassic period (what does Triassic period mean?)
   • Permian (what does Permian mean?)
   • Permian period (what does Permian period mean?)
   • Carboniferous (what does Carboniferous mean?)
   • Carboniferous period (what does Carboniferous period mean?)
   • Pennsylvanian (what does Pennsylvanian mean?)
   • Pennsylvanian period (what does Pennsylvanian period mean?)
   • Upper Carboniferous (what does Upper Carboniferous mean?)
   • Upper Carboniferous period (what does Upper Carboniferous period mean?)
   • Mississippian (what does Mississippian mean?)
   • Missippian period (what does Missippian period mean?)
   • Lower Carboniferous (what does Lower Carboniferous mean?)
   • Lower Carboniferous period (what does Lower Carboniferous period mean?)
   • Devonian (what does Devonian mean?)
   • Devonian period (what does Devonian period mean?)
   • Age of Fishes (what does Age of Fishes mean?)
   • Silurian (what does Silurian mean?)
   • Silurian period (what does Silurian period mean?)
   • Ordovician (what does Ordovician mean?)
   • Ordovician period (what does Ordovician period mean?)
   • Cambrian (what does Cambrian mean?)
   • Cambrian period (what does Cambrian period mean?)
   • ice age (what does ice age mean?)
   • glacial period (what does glacial period mean?)
   • glacial epoch (what does glacial epoch mean?)
6. Meaning
   • one of three periods of play in hockey games
   Hypernyms(s) period is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • playing period (what does playing period mean?)
   • period of play (what does period of play mean?)
   • play (what does play mean?)
7. Meaning
   • the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
   Hypernyms(s) period is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • time interval (what does time interval mean?)
   • interval (what does interval mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • orbit period (what does orbit period mean?)
8. Meaning
   • a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time
   Synonym(s)
   • historical period (what does historical period mean?)
   • historic period (what does historic period mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • a novel from the Victorian period
   Hypernyms(s) period is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • time period (what does time period mean?)
   • period of time (what does period of time mean?)
   • period (what does period mean?)