Definition:
- (n.) A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet.
- (n.) A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic.
- (n.) One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.
- (n.) The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion.
- (n.) A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence.
- (n.) The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word.
- (n.) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals.
- (n.) The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission.
- (n.) A complete musical sentence.
- (v. t.) To put an end to.
- (v. i.) To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc.
Compare period with other words:
blood vs. period
period vs. shift
period vs. regime
period vs. semicolon
period vs. rest
parade vs. period
minute vs. period
glacial vs. period
period vs. pupilage
aedileship vs. period
frist vs. period
hypermeter vs. period
period vs. zeitgeisty
period vs. stretch
interval vs. period
aster vs. period
period vs. phase
mobile vs. period
period vs. times
frame vs. period
jiffy vs. period
age vs. period
period vs. span
eras vs. period
attached vs. period
example vs. period
period vs. september
february vs. period
october vs. period
may vs. period
december vs. period
calendar vs. period
march vs. period
june vs. period
april vs. period
july vs. period
january vs. period
november vs. period
august vs. period
duration vs. period
delay vs. period
period vs. quinquennium
heaves vs. period
coetaneous vs. period
equitemporaneous vs. period
climacteric vs. period
period vs. quadrennium
period vs. widowerhood
hostname vs. period
novitiate vs. period
period vs. yuletide
noachian vs. period
hesperian vs. period
period vs. tonnage
accrued vs. period
catamenia vs. period
period vs. periodicity
adolescence vs. period
period vs. stint
period vs. quinquennial
period vs. saturnalia
period vs. tribulation
circadian vs. period
period vs. sustainable
partnership vs. period
period vs. shakedown
boyhood vs. period
period vs. tenancy
lactation vs. period
period vs. retrospective
heyday vs. period
paleolithic vs. period
period vs. renaissance
period vs. quaternary
period vs. sitting
limitation vs. period
eocene vs. period
oligocene vs. period
miocene vs. period
period vs. pliocene
period vs. pleistocene
cambrian vs. period
ordovician vs. period
period vs. silurian
devonian vs. period
carboniferous vs. period
period vs. permian
period vs. triassic
cretaceous vs. period
paleozoic vs. period
mesozoic vs. period
papacy vs. period
period vs. prelapsarian
period vs. vigil
period vs. victorian
period vs. truce
period vs. widowhood
infancy vs. period
binge vs. period
occupancy vs. period
concurrent vs. period
flourish vs. period
amazonian vs. period
liberty vs. period
correspond vs. period
costume vs. period
period vs. session
period vs. sprint
period vs. pterodactyl
ichthyosaurus vs. period
period vs. zone
instant vs. period
opening vs. period
period vs. reign
period vs. wink
eon vs. period
baroque vs. period
period vs. wane
menstrual vs. period
lease vs. period
period vs. puberty
period vs. rein
period vs. seasonal
period vs. prime
anachronism vs. period
late vs. period
dearth vs. period
dot vs. period
patch vs. period
period vs. present
past vs. period
period vs. term
conclude vs. period
period vs. regulation
period vs. phrase
period vs. subdivision
period vs. row
period vs. school
period vs. stage
menstruation vs. period
period vs. point
moment vs. period
period vs. planet
period vs. rotation
period vs. wave
period vs. recur
period vs. phenomenon
period vs. periodic
length vs. period
period vs. time
abbreviation vs. period
period vs. sentence
period vs. punctuation
epoch vs. period
conclusion vs. period
disease vs. period
end vs. period
historical vs. period
drought vs. period
isochronal vs. period
period vs. workout
period vs. semester
period vs. watch
once vs. period
life vs. period
contemporary vs. period
period vs. run
period vs. spell
archaic vs. period
freeze vs. period
monthly vs. period
period vs. quarantine
period vs. regular
accent vs. period
frequency vs. period
miscarriage vs. period
mayhap vs. period
century vs. period
period vs. year
decade vs. period
period vs. season
accrual vs. period
period vs. week
millennium vs. period
month vs. period