Synonyms for period

Noun

1. time period, period of time, period, fundamental quantity, fundamental measure

usage: an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"

2. period, playing period, period of play, play

usage: one of three periods of play in hockey games

3. period, historic period, historical period, time period, period of time, period

usage: a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period"

4. period, time interval, interval

usage: the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon

5. menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow, discharge, emission, expelling

usage: 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

6. period, point, full stop, stop, full point, punctuation, punctuation mark

usage: 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"

7. period, geological period, geological time, geologic time

usage: a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"

8. period, end, ending

usage: the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"