period
(noun, adjective, verb, interjection)
adjective
1. Appropriate for a given historical era.
2. (of a film, or play, or similar) Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate costumes and scenery.
interjection
1. (chiefly Canada, US) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
- When I say "eat your dinner," it means "eat your dinner," period!
noun
1. an amount of time
- a time period of 30 years
- hastened the period of time of his recovery
- Picasso's blue period
Definition categories: time
2. the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
Definition categories: time, interval
3. (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
Definition categories: time, division, part, section
4. a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
- ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods
Definition categories: time
5. the end or completion of something
- death put a period to his endeavors
- a change soon put a period to my tranquility
Definition categories: time, end, ending
6. the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
Similar word(s): catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, menstruum
Definition categories: process, discharge, emission, expelling
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
Definition categories: communication, punctuation
Sentences with period as a noun:
- There was a period of confusion following the announcement.
- You'll be on probation for a six-month period.
- Food rationing continued in the post-war period.
- When she is on her period, she prefers not to go swimming.
- This is one of the last paintings Picasso created during his Blue Period.
- I have math class in second period.
- Gretzky scored in the last minute of the second period.
verb
1. (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
2. To put an end to.