Noun Definition
period
1.Definition: (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
Category: General2.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"
Category: General3.Definition: a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
"Ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
Category: General4.Definition: an amount of time
"A time period of 30 years", "Hastened the period of time of his recovery", "Picasso's blue period"
Category: General5.Definition: the end or completion of something
"Death put a period to his endeavors", "A change soon put a period to my tranquility"
Category: General6.Definition: the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
Category: General7.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