1. period, period of time, time period

an amount of time

Example Sentences:
'a time period of 30 years'
'hastened the period of time of his recovery'
'Picasso's blue period'

• period of time
• time period

2. period

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

3. period

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

4. geological period, period

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

Example Sentences:
'ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods'

• geological period

5. period

the end or completion of something

Example Sentences:
'death put a period to his endeavors'
'a change soon put a period to my tranquility'

6. catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, menstruum, period

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

Example Sentences:
'the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation'
'a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped'
'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'

• catamenia
• flow
• menses
• menstruation
• menstruum

7. full point, full stop, period, point, stop

a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

Example Sentences:
'in England they call a period a stop'

• full point
• full stop
• point
• stop