Period

[n] 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"
[n] 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
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[n] the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
[n] a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
[n] one of three periods of play in hockey games
[n] the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
[n] a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period"

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Synonyms

catamenia, flow, full point, full stop, geological period, historic period, historical period, menses, menstruation, point, stop

Related Terms

accent, accentuation, adjectival phrase, aeon, age, Alexandrine, amount, amphibrach, amphimacer, amplitude, anacrusis, anapest, annual period, antinode, antispast, aphelion, apodosis, apogee, Archean, Archeozoic, arsis, astronomical longitude, autumnal eq