Noun Definition

period

1.Definition: (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games

Category: General

2.Definition: 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"

Related Noun(s):point, stop

Category: General

3.Definition: a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed

"Ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"

Category: General

4.Definition: an amount of time

"A time period of 30 years", "Hastened the period of time of his recovery", "Picasso's blue period"

Category: General

5.Definition: the end or completion of something

"Death put a period to his endeavors", "A change soon put a period to my tranquility"

Category: General

6.Definition: the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon

Category: General

7.Definition: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause

Related Noun(s):catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, menstruum

Category: General