Synonyms for period
Another word for period is time period, period of time or geological period. Below are 12 synonyms and 30 related words across 7 senses.
Also searched as: periods.
1. noun: an amount of time
- time period
- period of time
2. noun: the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
3. noun: (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
4. noun: a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
- geological period
5. noun: the end or completion of something
6. noun: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
- flow synonyms
- menstruation
- menses
- catamenia
- menstruum
7. noun: a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- point synonyms
- stop synonyms
- full point
- full stop
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- year synonyms
- years synonyms
- day synonyms
- life synonyms
- work time
- am
- time of year
- time off
- life-time
- time of life
- school synonyms
- long time
- great year
- night
- times
- orbit period
- interval synonyms
- time interval
- part synonyms
- section synonyms
- division synonyms
- ice age
- geological time
- glacial period
- geologic time
- glacial epoch
- end synonyms
- ending synonyms
- discharge synonyms
- emission synonyms
Period in word games
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- 6
- Scrabble
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- Words With Friends
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- Everyday word
- Unscramble PERIOD
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Questions people ask
What is another word for period?
You can say time period, period of time, geological period, flow or menstruation instead of period. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "an amount of time".
What is the opposite of period?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for period; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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