Word

period, n.
(periods)
freq. cnt. 96

an amount of time
<noun.time> freq. cnt.: 105 freq. cnt.: 94 freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 4

period period of time time period

sample sentences

"a time period of 30 years"
"hastened the period of time of his recovery"
"Picasso's blue period"

semantic pointers

hypernym

fundamental quantity, fundamental measure

hyponym

trial period, test period time frame grace, grace period hours downtime uptime work time time off bout hospitalization travel time times time elapsed time duration, continuance week, calendar week midweek field day life, lifetime, life-time, lifespan life life millennium, millenary bimillennium, bimillenary occupation past shelf life puerperium lactation time of life calendar day, civil day festival day, daylight, daytime morning, morn, morning time, forenoon night, dark, nighttime night night night eve evening week, hebdomad two weeks, fortnight weekend Indian summer, Saint Martin's summer year school, schooltime, school day year, yr, twelvemonth year semester bimester Olympiad lustrum decade, decennary, decennium century quadrennium quinquennium half-century quarter-century quarter phase of the moon day month, calendar month mid-January mid-February mid-March mid-April mid-May mid-June mid-July mid-August mid-September mid-October mid-November mid-December time limit term trimester hour silly season Golden Age silver age bronze age iron age great year, Platonic year regulation time overtime, extra time season, time of year dog days, canicule, canicular days midwinter season season long time, years, age long run, long haul drought, drouth era, epoch generation prehistory, prehistoric culture reign run early days, youth dawn evening time sleep, nap lease, term of a contract half life, half-life tide, lunar time period stage, phase multistage watch peacetime wartime hitch, enlistment, term of enlistment, tour of duty, duty tour, tour honeymoon indiction prohibition, prohibition era incubation period rainy day novitiate, noviciate peak, heyday, flush, flower, prime, bloom, blossom, efflorescence running time clotting time air alert question time real time real time study hall usance window

instance hyponym

Bronze Age Iron Age Stone Age Eolithic Age, Eolithic Paleolithic Age, Paleolithic, Palaeolithic Lower Paleolithic Middle Paleolithic Upper Paleolithic Mesolithic Age, Mesolithic, Epipaleolithic Neolithic Age, Neolithic, New Stone Age Great Schism

the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
<noun.time> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

period

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

interval, time interval

hyponym

a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
<noun.communication>

full point full stop period point stop

sample sentences

"in England they call a period a stop"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

point point point

semantic pointers

hypernym

punctuation mark, punctuation

hyponym

suspension point

the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
<noun.process>

catamenia flow menses menstruation menstruum period

sample sentences

"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

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

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derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

discharge, emission, expelling

hyponym

menorrhagia, hypermenorrhea oligomenorrhea

the end or completion of something
<noun.time>

period

sample sentences

"death put a period to his endeavors"
"a change soon put a period to my tranquility"

semantic pointers

domain of synset (usage)

figure of speech, image, trope, figure

hypernym

a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
<noun.time>

geological period period

sample sentences

"ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"

semantic pointers

hypernym

geological time, geologic time

instance hyponym

Quaternary, Quaternary period, Age of Man Tertiary, Tertiary period Cretaceous, Cretaceous period Jurassic, Jurassic period Triassic, Triassic period Permian, Permian period Carboniferous, Carboniferous period Pennsylvanian, Pennsylvanian period, Upper Carboniferous, Upper Carboniferous period Mississippian, Missippian period, Lower Carboniferous, Lower Carboniferous period Devonian, Devonian period, Age of Fishes Silurian, Silurian period Ordovician, Ordovician period Cambrian, Cambrian period

part holonym

era, geological era

part meronym

hyponym

ice age, glacial period, glacial epoch

(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
<noun.time>

period

semantic pointers

domain of synset (topic)

ice hockey, hockey, hockey game

hypernym

part, division, section

part holonym

playing period, period of play, play