“period”

Definitions

• noun

  an amount of time

  Synonyms: time period, period of time, alexandrine, archean, archeozoic, cambrian, carboniferous, cenozoic, comanchean, cretaceous, devonian, eocene

  • Example:“a time period of 30 years”
  • Example:“… hastened the period of time of his recovery”

• noun

  the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon

• noun

  (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games

• noun

  a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed

  Synonyms: geological period

  • Example:“Ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods.”

• noun

  the end or completion of something

  • Example:“Death put a period to his endeavors.”
  • Example:“A change soon put a period to my tranquility.”

• noun

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

  Synonyms: menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, flow

  • Example:“The women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation.”
  • Example:“A woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped.”