period
Part of speech: noun
adj
intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
chemistry
entertainment
genetics
geography
geology
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
mathematics
medicine
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natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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skating
sports
Etymology: From Middle English periode, from Middle French periode, from Medieval Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos, “circuit, orbit, a recurring interval of time, path around”), from περι- (peri-, “around”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”). Displaced native Middle English tide (“interval, period, season”), from Old English tīd (“time, period, season”), as well as Middle English elde (“age, period”), from Old English ieldu (“age, period of time”).
Inflected forms:
form: periods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: per.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: per.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: per.
pos: intj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: periods
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: perioding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: perioded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: perioded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: per.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: A length of time.
pos: noun
examples: There was a period of confusion following the announcement.
You'll be on probation for a six-month period.
Philip Miles, defending, said: "This was a single instance, there was no allegation of continuing behaviour over a long period of time."
gloss: A length of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
pos: noun
examples: Food rationing continued in the post-war period.
With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.
Sung Yung-hsi of Ch’u-hsiung was a government student during the Chia-ch’ing period.
gloss: The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Philippines
US
examples: ‘You know, a period? The black spot at the end of a sentence — what do you call them over there?’
gloss: A decisive end to something; a stop.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: My sufferings, physical and mental, are more than I can bear, and when such small arrangements as I have to make for your future well-being are completed it is my intention to put a period to them.
gloss: The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.
pos: noun
gloss: Female menstruation; an episode of this.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
examples: When she is on her period, she prefers not to go swimming.
gloss: Female menstruation; an episode of this.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
gloss: A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
pos: noun
examples: This is one of the last paintings Picasso created during his Blue Period.
gloss: Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
pos: noun
examples: I have math class in second period.
gloss: Each of the intervals, typically three, of which a game is divided.
pos: noun
examples: Gretzky scored in the last minute of the second period.
gloss: One or more additional intervals to decide a tied game, an overtime period.
pos: noun
examples: They won in the first overtime period.
gloss: The length of time for a disease to run its course.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: An end or conclusion; the final point of a process, a state, an event, etc.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: As thus all gazed on hir, so she glaunced hir lookes on all, surueying them as curiously, as they noted hir exactly, but at last she set downe her period on the face of Alexis […]
And if my death might make this island happy,
And prove the period of their tyranny,
I would expend it with all willingness:
Why now let me die, for I haue liu'd long enough : This is the period of my ambition : O this bleſſed houre.
All comes to one period, whether man make an end of himſelfe, or whether he endure-it[…].
When Loue thus in his Center ends,
Desire and Hope, his inward friends
Are shaken off: while Doubt and Griefe,
The weakest giuers of reliefe,
Stand in his councell as the chiefe:
And now he to his period brought,
From Loue becomes some other thought.
Set up an hour-glasse; hee’l go on untill
The last sand make his Period.
[…]and yet this is but the ἀρχή ὠδίνων, the Beginning of those evils which shall never End till eternity hath a period[…]
So ſpake th’ Archangel Michael, then paus’d, / As at the Worlds great period ; and our Sire / Replete with joy and wonder thus repli’d.
gloss: A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole.
pos: noun
tags: rhetoric
examples: Periods are beautiful when they are not too long.
that such iron moulds as these shall have autority to knaw out the choicest periods of exquisitest books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that haples race of men, whose misfortune it is to have understanding.
In declamatory periods Dr Fordyce spins out Rousseau's eloquence […]
A very superior gentleman, Mr. Kenge. Truly eloquent indeed. Some of his periods quite majestic!
He writhed for twenty minutes under the flowery and eulogistic periods of the president, and rose himself in the state of confused indignation which the Briton feels when he is publicly approved.
gloss: A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The Death of Patroclus was the most eminent Period; and consequently the most proper Time for such Games.
gloss: A row in the periodic table of the elements.
pos: noun
gloss: A geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years; a subdivision of an era, and subdivided into epochs.
pos: noun
examples: These fossils are from the Jurassic period.
Fossils are particularly well described from the Carboniferous, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and have been found in the USA, England, Russia, Lebanon and Germany. Sites such as Lyme Regis in Dorset have particularly yielded number of Jurassic “squid” ink sacs and nodules (Doguzhaeva et al. 2004).
gloss: A Drosophila gene, the gene product of which is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
pos: noun
examples: Polyclonal antibodies were prepared against the period gene product, which influences biological rhythms in D. melanogaster, by using small synthetic peptides from the per sequence as immunogens.
gloss: Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
pos: noun
gloss: The length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length.
pos: noun
gloss: Designating anything from a given historical era.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a period car
a period TV commercial
Located on the northbound platform, the detached, timber-clad waiting room (a period Furness Railway structure) has been adapted into a pet-friendly, self-catering, two-bedroom holiday home complete with sun lounge and garden for those sunny Cumbrian days.
gloss: Evoking, or appropriate for, a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate costumes and scenery.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a period piece
As the guests arrived — there were about a hundred, a majority in period attire — I began to feel out of place in my beige summer suit, white shirt, and red necktie. Then I got over it. I certainly didn't suffer from Confederate-uniform envy.
gloss: Menstrual.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: period pains
period blood
period supplies
gloss: That's final; that's the end of the matter (analogous to a period ending a sentence); end of story.
pos: intj
tags: Canada
US
examples: I know you don't want to go to the dentist, but your teeth need to be checked, period!
I'm the GOAT, point blank period!
gloss: To come to a period; to conclude.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: For you may period upon this, that where there is the most pity for others, there is the greatest misery in the party pitied.
gloss: To put an end to.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
rare
transitive
gloss: To menstruate; to excrete menstrual blood.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
Synonyms: duration
interval
period
period of time
tide
time
time interval
time period
timespan
space
span
stound
Antonyms: frequency
Related words: periodic
periodicity
periodicize
era
Derived words: accounting period
Baroque period
Classical period
closed period
common practice period
contract period
cooling-off period
critical period
double period
eigenperiod
foreperiod
free period
gestation period
glacial period
grace period
grand period of growth
gyroperiod
half-period
Hamilton period
honeymoon period
hydroperiod
incubation period
intraperiod
Julian period
long-period
medium-period
Meiji period
menstrual period
menstruation period
midperiod
modern period
multiperiod
Nara period
nonperiod
notice period
on one's period
operational service period
ovulatory period
period diaper
period doubling
period drama
periodical
periodization
periodize
periodlike
period of time
periodogram
periodoscope
period pain
period panties
period pants
period piece
period play
period poverty
period shits
periodt
photoperiod
Pisano period
probationary period
Protoliterate period
pseudoperiod
pseudo-period
pseudoperiodic
psychological refractory period
question period
refractory period
Romantic period
rotational period
rotation period
scotoperiod
semi-period
semiperiod
short-period
short-period comet
short period comet
sidereal orbital period
sidereal period
sidereal rotation period
Sothic period
subperiod
sunrise period
synodic period
that's on period
thermoperiod
time of pericentre passage
time period
turned period
Uruk period
waiting period
wash-up period
xerothermic period
zero period
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: periudhë
lang: Southern Altai
word: ӧйлик
roman: öylik
lang: Arabic
word: فَتْرَة
roman: fatra
lang: Arabic
word: مُدَّة
roman: mudda
lang: Armenian
word: ժամանակահատված
roman: žamanakahatvac
lang: Azerbaijani
word: müddət
lang: Belarusian
word: пэры́яд
roman: perýjad
lang: Belarusian
word: праме́жак
roman: pramjéžak
lang: Bulgarian
word: перио́д
roman: periód
lang: Catalan
word: període
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 時期 /时期
roman: shíqī
lang: Czech
word: období
lang: Danish
word: period
lang: Dutch
word: periode
lang: Esperanto
word: periodo
lang: Estonian
word: periood
lang: Finnish
word: jakso
lang: Finnish
word: ajanjakso
lang: Finnish
word: aika
lang: French
word: période
lang: Galician
word: período
lang: German
word: Zeitraum
lang: German
word: Periode
lang: Greek
word: περίοδος
roman: períodos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: περίοδος
roman: períodos
lang: Haitian Creole
word: peryòd
lang: Hebrew
word: תְּקוּפָה
roman: tkufá
lang: Hindi
word: अवधि
roman: avdhi
lang: Hungarian
word: időszak
lang: Hungarian
word: időtartam
lang: Hungarian
word: idő
lang: Indonesian
word: masa
lang: Italian
word: periodo
lang: Japanese
word: 期間
roman: kikan
lang: Kazakh
word: кезең
roman: kezeñ
lang: Korean
word: 기간
roman: gigan
lang: Latin
word: aetas
lang: Latvian
word: laikmets
lang: Lithuanian
word: laikotarpis
lang: Macedonian
word: перио́д
roman: periód
lang: Macedonian
word: раздобје
roman: razdobje
lang: Māori
word: takiwā
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: periode
lang: Dari
word: دَورَه
roman: dawra
lang: Dari
word: مُدَّت
roman: muddat
lang: Iranian Persian
word: دُورِه
roman: dowre
lang: Iranian Persian
word: مُدَّت
roman: moddat
lang: Polish
word: okres
lang: Polish
word: period
lang: Portuguese
word: período
lang: Romanian
word: perioadă
lang: Russian
word: пери́од
roman: períod
lang: Russian
word: промежу́ток
roman: promežútok
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ра́здо̄бље
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: перѝод
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: rázdōblje
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: perìod
lang: Slovak
word: obdobie
lang: Slovene
word: obdobje
lang: Spanish
word: período
lang: Spanish
word: periodo
lang: Swedish
word: period
lang: Tagalog
word: takda
lang: Tajik
word: давра
roman: davra
lang: Tajik
word: муддат
roman: muddat
lang: Tausug
word: jaman
lang: Thai
word: ตอน
roman: dtɔɔn
lang: Turkish
word: devir
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: دوره
roman: devre
lang: Ukrainian
word: пері́од
roman: períod
lang: Ukrainian
word: про́міжок
roman: prómižok
lang: Urdu
word: مُدَّت
roman: muddat
lang: Urdu
word: دَور
roman: daur
lang: Uyghur
word: دەۋر
roman: dewr
lang: Uzbek
word: davr
lang: Uzbek
word: muddat
lang: Albanian
word: periudhë
lang: Arabic
word: مَرْحَلَة زَمْنِيَّة
roman: marḥala zamniyya
lang: Arabic
word: مُدَّة
roman: mudda
lang: Arabic
word: حِين
roman: ḥīn
lang: Arabic
word: فَتْرَة
roman: fatra
lang: Arabic
word: عَصْر
roman: ʕaṣr
lang: Armenian
word: շրջան
roman: šrǰan
lang: Armenian
word: ժամականաշրջան
roman: žamakanašrǰan
lang: Armenian
word: փուլ
roman: pʻul
lang: Belarusian
word: перы́яд
roman: pjerýjad
lang: Bulgarian
word: епо́ха
roman: epóha
lang: Catalan
word: període
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 時代 /时代
roman: shídài
lang: Czech
word: období
lang: Dutch
word: periode
lang: Finnish
word: aika
lang: Finnish
word: ajanjakso
lang: French
word: période
lang: German
word: Epoche
lang: German
word: Zeitraum
lang: German
word: Periode
lang: Greek
word: περίοδος
roman: períodos
lang: Hebrew
word: תְּקוּפָה
roman: tkufá
lang: Hindi
word: काल
roman: kāl
lang: Hindi
word: युग
roman: yug
lang: Hungarian
word: időszak
lang: Hungarian
word: korszak
lang: Hungarian
word: kor
lang: Indonesian
word: masa
lang: Italian
word: periodo
lang: Japanese
word: 時代
roman: jidai
lang: Kazakh
word: кезең
roman: kezeñ
lang: Korean
word: 시대
roman: sidae
lang: Central Kurdish
word: دەم
roman: dem
lang: Kyrgyz
word: мезгил
roman: mezgil
lang: Kyrgyz
word: доор
roman: door
lang: Macedonian
word: перио́д
roman: periód
lang: Malayalam
word: കാലഘട്ടം
roman: kālaghaṭṭaṁ
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: periode
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: æra
lang: Dari
word: دَورَه
roman: dawra
lang: Dari
word: مُدَّت
roman: muddat
lang: Iranian Persian
word: دُورِه
roman: dowre
lang: Iranian Persian
word: مُدَّت
roman: moddat
lang: Polish
word: okres
lang: Polish
word: period
lang: Portuguese
word: período
lang: Romanian
word: perioadă
lang: Russian
word: пери́од
roman: períod
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: àm
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: ùine
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: перѝод
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: до̑ба
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ра́здо̄бље
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: perìod
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: dȏba
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: rázdōblje
lang: Slovak
word: perióda
lang: Slovak
word: obdobie
lang: Slovene
word: doba
lang: Slovene
word: obdobje
lang: Spanish
word: período
lang: Spanish
word: periodo
lang: Swahili
word: zamani
lang: Swahili
word: muda
lang: Swedish
word: period
lang: Swedish
word: tidsperiod
lang: Tagalog
word: puktol
lang: Tagalog
word: panahon
lang: Tajik
word: давра
roman: davra
lang: Tajik
word: муддат
roman: muddat
lang: Turkish
word: dönem
lang: Ukrainian
word: пері́од
roman: períod
lang: Urdu
word: کال
roman: kāl
lang: Urdu
word: دَور
roman: daur
lang: Uzbek
word: davr
lang: Vietnamese
word: giai đoạn
lang: Vietnamese
word: thời kì
lang: Albanian
word: periodike
lang: Arabic
word: حَدَث مُتَكَرِّر
roman: ḥadaṯ mutakarrir
lang: Armenian
word: պարբերություն
roman: parberutʻyun
lang: Bulgarian
word: перио́д
roman: periód
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 週期 /周期
roman: zhōuqī, zhōuqí
lang: Czech
word: perioda
lang: Dutch
word: periode
lang: Finnish
word: jakso
lang: Finnish
word: jaksonaika
lang: French
word: période
lang: French
word: cycle
lang: Greek
word: περίοδος
roman: períodos
lang: Hindi
word: अवधि
roman: avdhi
lang: Hungarian
word: periódus
lang: Hungarian
word: fázis
lang: Hungarian
word: ciklus
lang: Indonesian
word: masa
lang: Italian
word: periodo
lang: Japanese
word: 周期
roman: shūki
lang: Korean
word: 주기
roman: jugi
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: periode
lang: Polish
word: cykl
lang: Portuguese
word: período
lang: Russian
word: цикл
roman: cikl
lang: Russian
word: пери́од
roman: períod
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: ùine
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: перѝод
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: perìod
lang: Slovak
word: perióda
lang: Slovene
word: perioda
lang: Spanish
word: período
lang: Spanish
word: periodo
lang: Swahili
word: muda
lang: Tagalog
word: takda