English Explanatory Dictionary

period

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A length of time.
  2. A length of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
  3. The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
  4. A decisive end to something; a stop.
  5. 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.
  6. Female menstruation; an episode of this.
  7. The set of symptoms associated with menstruation, even if not accompanied by menstruation; an episode of these symptoms.
  8. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
  9. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
  10. Each of the intervals, typically three, of which a game is divided.
  11. One or more additional intervals to decide a tied game, an overtime period.
  12. The length of time for a disease to run its course.
adj
  1. Designating anything from a given historical era.
  2. Evoking, or appropriate for, a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate costumes and scenery.
  3. Menstrual.
intj
  1. That's final; that's the end of the matter (analogous to a period ending a sentence); end of story.
verb
  1. To come to a period; to conclude.
  2. To put an end to.
  3. To menstruate; to excrete menstrual blood.

Pronunciation

/ˈpɪə.ɹi.əd/ /ˈpɪə.ɹɪ.əd/ /ˈpɪɚ.i.əd/ /ˈpɪɹ.i.əd/ en-us-period.ogg /ˈpi.ɹɪd/

Word forms

period periods per. perioding perioded

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”).

Synonyms

duration interval period period of time tide time time interval time period timespan space span stound vintage point full stop dot full-point plain point that's that end of discussion

Antonyms

frequency

Related words

periodic periodicity periodicize era . apostrophe curly brackets brace square bracket bracket colon comma dash ellipsis exclamation mark fraction slash guillemet hyphen interpunct interrobang parentheses (US Canada) full stop or period question mark quotation marks semicolon slash stroke space

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

Translations

Albanian: periudhë Albanian: periodike Arabic: مَرْحَلَة زَمْنِيَّة Arabic: مُدَّة Arabic: حِين Arabic: فَتْرَة Arabic: عَصْر Arabic: حَدَث مُتَكَرِّر Armenian: շրջան Armenian: ժամականաշրջան Armenian: փուլ Armenian: պարբերություն Belarusian: перы́яд Bulgarian: епо́ха Bulgarian: перио́д Catalan: període Chinese Mandarin: 時代 /时代 Chinese Mandarin: 週期 /周期 Czech: období Czech: perioda Dutch: periode Finnish: aika Finnish: ajanjakso Finnish: jakso Finnish: jaksonaika French: période French: cycle German: Epoche German: Zeitraum German: Periode Greek: περίοδος Hebrew: תְּקוּפָה Hindi: काल Hindi: युग Hindi: अवधि Hungarian: időszak Hungarian: korszak Hungarian: kor Hungarian: periódus Hungarian: fázis Hungarian: ciklus Indonesian: masa Italian: periodo Japanese: 時代 Japanese: 周期 Kazakh: кезең Korean: 시대 Korean: 주기 Central Kurdish: دەم Kyrgyz: мезгил Kyrgyz: доор Macedonian: перио́д Malayalam: കാലഘട്ടം Norwegian Bokmål: periode Norwegian Bokmål: æra Dari: دَورَه Dari: مُدَّت Iranian Persian: دُورِه Iranian Persian: مُدَّت Polish: okres Polish: period Polish: cykl Portuguese: período Romanian: perioadă Russian: пери́од Russian: цикл Scottish Gaelic: àm Scottish Gaelic: ùine Serbo-Croatian: перѝод Serbo-Croatian: до̑ба Serbo-Croatian: ра́здо̄бље Serbo-Croatian: perìod Serbo-Croatian: dȏba Serbo-Croatian: rázdōblje Slovak: perióda Slovak: obdobie Slovene: doba Slovene: obdobje Slovene: perioda Spanish: período Spanish: periodo Swahili: zamani Swahili: muda Swedish: period Swedish: tidsperiod Tagalog: puktol Tagalog: panahon Tagalog: takda
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