Definition of period | What does period mean?
What is the definition of the word PERIOD?
Here is a list of definitions for period.
- 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"
What are the synonyms of the word PERIOD?
What is another word for PERIOD?. Here is a list of synonyms for PERIOD
Words beginning with PERIOD?
We only list the first 50 results for words beginning with PERIOD.
- periods
- periodontology
- periodontitises
- periodontitis
- periodontists
- periodontist
- periodontics
- periodontias
- periodontia
- periodontally
- periodontal
- periodizations
- periodization
- periodisations
- periodisation
- perioding
- periodids
- periodid
- periodicity
- periodicities
- periodicals
- periodically
- periodicalists
- periodicalist
- periodical
- periodic
- perioded
- periodates
- periodate
- period
What words can be made with PERIOD?
We only list the first 50 results for any words that can be made with PERIOD.
In which dictionaries does the word period exist?
English International (SOWPODS) - Yes
English USA (TWL 98) - Yes
English USA (TWL 06) - Yes
Collins Scrabble Words (CSW2012) - Yes
Collins Scrabble Words (CSW2007) - Yes
Words with Friends (WWF) - Yes
Enable1 (ENABLE1) - Yes
Letterpress (LETTERPRESS) - Yes