English dictionary
period
nounPronunciation
ˈpɪə.rɪ.əd
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
noun
- the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
noun
- an amount of time
noun
- the end or completion of something
noun
- a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
noun
- (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
noun
- the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
Example sentences
in England they call a period a ‘stop’
the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation
{'source': 'Hippocrates', 'text': 'a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped'}
{'source': 'Aristotle', 'text': 'the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females'}
a time period of 30 years
hastened the period of time of his recovery
Picasso's blue period
death put a period to his endeavors
a change soon put a period to my tranquility
ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods