period

nouns

an amount of time
"a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
period, period of time, time period
the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
period
is derived from
periodical
is a type of (narrower)
a definite length of time marked off by two instants
interval, time interval
(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
period
is a part of
(in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds
"rain stopped play in the 4th inning"
period of play, play, playing period
domain category
a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled sticks
hockey, hockey game, ice hockey
is a type of (narrower)
one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
"the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division"
division, part, section
a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
"ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
geological period, period
the end or completion of something
"death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
period
domain usage
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
figure, figure of speech, image, trope
is a type of (narrower)
the point in time at which something ends
"the end of the year"; "the ending of warranty period"
end, ending
the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
"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
catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, menstruum, period
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"
full point, full stop, period, point, stop