Period definition

Period as a noun

1. an amount of time

   "a time period of 30 years"

   Same sense: time period, period of time

2. the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon

3. (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games

4. a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed

   "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"

   Same sense: geological period

5. the end or completion of something

   "death put a period to his endeavors"

6. the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause

   Same sense: flow, menstruation, menses, catamenia, menstruum

7. 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’"

   Same sense: point, stop, full point, full stop

Synonyms and antonyms

• time period
• period of time
• geological period
• flow
• menstruation
• menses
• catamenia
• menstruum
• point definition
• stop definition
• full point
• full stop

All synonyms of period, sense by sense

How to say period

Period has 3 syllables and rhymes with myriad. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with period

• myriad

PERIOD in word games

Scrabble

9

Words With Friends

10

Anagrams

1

Is PERIOD a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check PERIOD in the word checker, or unscramble PERIOD to see its 1 anagram and the shorter words in its letters.