Period Definition & Meaning
period
- noun
- an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
- the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
- (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
- a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
- the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
- the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "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"-- Aristotle
- 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"
"Period" in song lyrics
See how period is used in real songs:
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"Drama, the three of us are pyramids period"
Abstract Rude w/ Moka Only, Prevail — And That You Can Quote -
"Or dress like little shorty, when she got her period"
Afu-Ra — Dynamite -
"Point blank period"
Ali — Serious (Bonus Track)
Words that rhyme with period
Usage tips for "period"
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- What does period mean?
- an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods" the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors
- What part of speech is period?
- Period is a noun.
- How many definitions does period have?
- Period has 7 definitions across 1 part of speech (noun).