period

Words with a similar base: geological_period, period, period_of_time, time_period

'period'

[time_period.n.01] as in: an amount of time

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

'period'

[period.n.02] as in: the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon

'period'

[period.n.03] as in: (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games

'period'

[period.n.04] as in: a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed

Examples:
ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods

'period'

[period.n.05] as in: the end or completion of something

Examples:
death put a period to his endeavors
a change soon put a period to my tranquility

'period'

[menstruation.n.01] as in: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; ; --Hippocrates; --Aristotle

Examples:
the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation
a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped
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

'period'

[period.n.07] as in: a punctuation mark (.)

placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

Examples:
in England they call a period a stop

Origins

					period (English)
└── periode (Middle English (1100-1500))
    └── periode (Middle French (ca. 1400-1600))
        └── periodus (Latin)
            └── περίοδος (Ancient Greek (to 1453))

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