Period

Adjective

 * 1) Appropriate for a given historical era.

Interjection

 * 1)  And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.

Noun

 * 1)  The length of time for a disease to run its course.
 * 2) An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
 * 3) A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
 * 4)  A periodic sentence.
 * 5)  The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
 * 6) A length of time.
 * 7) 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.
 * 8)  A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
 * 9) Female menstruation.
 * 10) A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
 * 11) Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
 * 12)  Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.
 * 13)  A row in the periodic table of the elements.
 * 14)  A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm

Adjectives for Period

 * (time) secluded; adequate; successive (plural); tortured; immediate; postwar; remote; unlimited; towering; prehistoric; immature; dismal; prolonged; engine-creating; brief; chronological; pivotal; corresponding; severe; dangerous; characteristic; distinct; critical; definite; mental; extended; smiling; frivolous; traditional; respective; well-defined; pretentious; momentous; dark; potential; bubble; rude; vigorous; stirring; long; glamorous; creative; controversial; dead; spiritual; modern; specified; variable; brilliant; devastating; limited; fruitful; disturbed; predetermined; unquiet; unmoral; corrupt; medieval; immense; pagan; formative melancholy; calamity; measurable; pretty reasonable; considerable; conversational sidereal; productive; eventful; glorious previous; lurid; palmy; contagious; glacial noteworthy; tickling; indefinite; nebulous typical; anomalistic; sluggish; provincial impressionable; chaotic; comfortable; proscribed; transition; flourishing; definite; pioneering; congested; amusing; long-forgotten; genial; happy; tranquil; expired; stated; moot; shameful; fecund; wondrous; discreditable; creative; probationary; trying.

Verbs for Period
characterize—; conclude—; inaugurate— launch—; perpetuate—; personify—; plunge into—; shorten—; usher in—; —achieves; —advances; —consumes; —dawns; —dies; —elapses; —embarks; —embraces; —expires; —flows; —glides; —intervenes; — terminates.

Thesaurus
mark, masculine caesura, measure, mechanical wave, menses, menstrual discharge, menstruation, meridian, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metron, molossus, monthlies, mora, movement, musical phrase, musical sentence, node, notch, noun phrase, nuance, numbers, off season, omega, orbit, ornament, out of phase, paeon, paragraph, part, pas, passage, patch, pause, payoff, peculiar expression, peg, pentameter, pentapody, perigee, perihelion, periodic wave, periodicity, periods, peroration, phrasal idiom, phrase, pitch, plane, plateau, point, proceleusmatic, proportion, psychological time, pyrrhic, quantity, quietus, radio wave, rainy season, range, ratio, ray, reach, refrain, reinforcement, remove, resolution, resonance, resonance frequency, response, resting place, rhythm, ritornello, round, rung, scale, scope, season, seasonableness, seasonality, section, seismic wave, semicolon, sentence, set phrase, shade, shadow, shock wave, small circle, social season, solstitial colure, sound wave, space, space-time, span, spell, spondee, sprung rhythm, stair, standard, standard phrase, stanza, statement, step, stint, stop, stoppage, stopping place, strain, stress, stretch, surface wave, swan song, swing, syntactic structure, syzygy, tailpiece, tense, term, terminal, termination, terminus, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, that time, the curse, the future, the past, the present, the season, thesis, tidal wave, tide, time, time of year, timebinding, trajectory, transverse wave, tread, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee, trough, turn of expression, turn of phrase, tutti, tutti passage, usage, utterance, variation, verb complex, verb phrase, verbalism, vernal equinox, verse, wave, wave equation, wave motion, wave number, wavelength, way of speaking, while, windup, word-group, years, zodiac, zone, Alexandrine, Archean, Archeozoic, Cambrian, Carboniferous, Cenozoic, Comanchean, Cretaceous, Devonian, Eocene, Glacial, Holocene, Lower Cretaceous, Lower Tertiary, Mesozoic, Miocene, Mississippian, Oligocene, Paleocene, Paleozoic, Pennsylvanian, Permian, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Precambrian, Proterozoic, Quaternary, Recent, Silurian, Tertiary, Triassic, Upper Cretaceous, Upper Tertiary, Z, accent, accentuation, adjectival phrase, aeon, age, amount, amphibrach, amphimacer, amplitude, anacrusis, anapest, annual period, antinode, antispast, aphelion, apodosis, apogee, arsis, astronomical longitude, autumnal equinox, bacchius, baseball season, basketball season, bass passage, beat, boundary, bourdon, bridge, burden, cadence, caesura, caliber, catalexis, catamenia, catamenial discharge, catastrophe, ceasing, celestial equator, celestial longitude, celestial meridian, cessation, chloriamb, chloriambus, chorus, chronology, circle, clause, close, closing, closure, coda, cold season, colon, colures, comma, compass, concert season, conclusion, construction, consummation, continuity, counterpoint, courses, crack of doom, crest, cretic, culmination, curtain, curtains, cut, dactyl, days, de Broglie wave, death, decease, degree, denouement, destination, destiny, development, diaeresis, diffraction, dimeter, dipody, discontinuance, division, dochmiac, doom, dry season, duration, duree, ecliptic, effect, electromagnetic wave, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, end, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, epitrite, epoch, equator, equinoctial, equinoctial circle, equinoctial colure, equinox, era, eschatology, expiration, exposition, expression, extent, fate, feminine caesura, figure, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, flowers, folderol, foot, football season, frequency, frequency band, frequency spectrum, full stop, galactic longitude, geocentric longitude, geodetic longitude, goal, grade, great circle, guided wave, harmonic close, headed group, height, heliocentric longitude, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, idiom, idiotism, in phase, interference, interlude, intermezzo, interval, introductory phrase, ionic, izzard, jingle, juncture, last, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, lastingness, latter end, leap, level, light, lilt, locution, longitude, longitudinal wave, manner of speaking,

Etymology
From periode from  periode from  periodus from  periodus from  περίοδος (períodos) "circuit, period of time, path around" from περί- (peri-) "around" + ὁδός (hodós) "way". Displaced native tide "interval, period, season" (from  tīd "time, period, season"),  elde "age, period" (from  eldo, ieldo "age, period of time").

Synonyms

 * full stop
 * See also Thesaurus:period
 * full stop

Interjection

 * Czech: !
 * Dutch: punt uit
 * French: point !, point final !, point barre!, un point c'est tout !
 * Hungarian: pont!
 * Macedonian:


 * Polish: i kropka!
 * Portuguese: ponto final, ponto
 * Russian: и точка! (i tóčka)
 * Swahili:, vipindi,
 * Swedish: punkt, och därmed basta

Noun

 * Albanian: pikë
 * Arabic:, علامة فصلية
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bosnian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 句號,  句号 , 句點,  句点 (European dot: “.”)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: punkto
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi:,  ,  पूर्ण विराम
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:, 句点
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ponto final
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: тачка
 * Roman: tačka
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tuldok
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu:


 * Albanian: periudhë
 * Arabic: (marħála zamníyya),  مدة,  حين
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: काल
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Kurdish:
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Slovak: perióda
 * Slovene: doba, obdobje
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:, vipindi,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: کال


 * Albanian: periodike
 * Arabic: (ħádaθ mutakárrir)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * French: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovak: perióda
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: vipindi,

Anagrams

 * dopier

Noun

 * 1) period (time)
 * kroz neki vremenski period - through a time period

Noun

 * 1) period (of time)

Noun

 * 1) a period, a limited amount of time

Related terms

 * brunstperiod
 * periodare
 * periodicitet
 * periodisering
 * periodisk
 * periodkort
 * periodvis