1. period
noun. ['ˈpɪriːəd'] an amount of time.
Synonyms
- incubation period
- fundamental measure
- schooltime
- clotting time
- fortnight
- term
- reign
- usance
- hebdomad
- morning
- daytime
- night
- canicule
- rainy day
- time frame
- time of life
- time
- youth
- dog days
- Olympiad
- millenary
- prehistoric culture
- mid-April
- calendar month
- overtime
- drouth
- forenoon
- Indian summer
- decade
- quarter-century
- hours
- phase of the moon
- midwinter
- weekend
- life
- Platonic year
- indiction
- sleep
- bimillennium
- efflorescence
- mid-February
- lunar time period
- twelvemonth
- continuance
- dark
- tide
- morn
- wartime
- downtime
- work time
- week
- quarter
- duty tour
- nighttime
- peak
- run
- life-time
- prehistory
- years
- epoch
- mid-May
- mid-January
- stage
- term of enlistment
- hitch
- year
- quadrennium
- flush
- civil day
- noviciate
- enlistment
- eve
- bimillenary
- yr
- millennium
- time period
- honeymoon
- lustrum
- blossom
- evening
- running time
- mid-October
- question time
- time of year
- lifespan
- occupation
- period of time
- day
- semester
- air alert
- lease
- Saint Martin's summer
- prohibition
- dawn
- time limit
- bimester
- tour
- decennium
- mid-March
- half-century
- generation
- regulation time
- duration
- mid-December
- study hall
- daylight
- bronze age
- test period
- tour of duty
- long haul
- multistage
- silly season
- long time
- puerperium
- prime
- mid-November
- watch
- mid-August
- drought
- midweek
- two weeks
- trimester
- mid-September
- heyday
- time off
- calendar week
- lifetime
- era
- month
- uptime
- past
- bloom
- great year
- century
- phase
- quinquennium
- nap
- lactation
- window
- age
- season
- hour
- calendar day
- canicular days
- shelf life
- festival
- real time
- hospitalization
- morning time
- term of a contract
- flower
- prohibition era
- early days
- iron age
- fundamental quantity
- elapsed time
- school
- silver age
- bout
- half-life
- travel time
- long run
- novitiate
- field day
- half life
- mid-July
- Golden Age
- extra time
- peacetime
- trial period
- times
- school day
- decennary
Antonyms
- work time
- time off
- downtime
- overtime
- uptime
- day
- night
Etymology
- periode (Middle English (1100-1500))
- periode (Middle French (ca. 1400-1600))
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Example sentences of the word period
1. Noun, singular or mass
Leave your dog alone for a short period of time and then return.
Quotes containing the word period
1. I'm happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time. The success of being a part of the South, of Atlanta, which is now the hot bed of music, that's what's gonna last the longest. The fact that I contributed to planting our flag and moving music to my city, that's what I'm most proud of.
- T.I.
2. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
- Dale Carnegie
3. Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it's with the hope of winning something more.
- Derek Kilmer
2. period
noun. ['ˈpɪriːəd'] the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon.
Synonyms
- time interval
- interval
Antonyms
- estivate
- wake
- aestivate
Etymology
- periode (Middle English (1100-1500))
- periode (Middle French (ca. 1400-1600))
3. period
noun. ['ˈpɪriːəd'] a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations.
Synonyms
- full stop
- punctuation mark
- suspension point
- stop
- punctuation
- full point
Antonyms
- syncategoreme
- supply
- sunset
- light
Etymology
- periode (Middle English (1100-1500))
- periode (Middle French (ca. 1400-1600))
4. period
noun. ['ˈpɪriːəd'] (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games.
Synonyms
- part
- play
- playing period
- division
- section
Antonyms
- nonbeing
- dead
- nonexistence
- alive
Etymology
- periode (Middle English (1100-1500))
- periode (Middle French (ca. 1400-1600))
5. period
noun. ['ˈpɪriːəd'] the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause.
Synonyms
- menstruation
- expelling
- catamenia
- menses
- menstruum
- flow
- discharge
- menorrhagia
- hypermenorrhea
- emission
Antonyms
- past
- postmeridian
- antemeridian
- adult
Etymology
- periode (Middle English (1100-1500))
- periode (Middle French (ca. 1400-1600))
6. period
noun. ['ˈpɪriːəd'] the end or completion of something.
Synonyms
- end
Antonyms
- beginning
- aged
Etymology
- periode (Middle English (1100-1500))
- periode (Middle French (ca. 1400-1600))
7. period
noun. ['ˈpɪriːəd'] a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed.
Synonyms
- era
- geological era
- geologic time
- ice age
- glacial period
- epoch
- glacial epoch
- geological time
Antonyms
- immaturity
- wetness
- dull
- birth
Etymology
- periode (Middle English (1100-1500))
- periode (Middle French (ca. 1400-1600))