period
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an amount of time
a time period of 30 years
Types & categories
- fundamental quantity hypernym
- trial period hyponym
- time frame hyponym
- hours hyponym
- downtime hyponym
- uptime hyponym
- work time hyponym
- time off hyponym
- bout hyponym
- hospitalization hyponym
- travel time hyponym
- times hyponym
- time hyponym
- elapsed time hyponym
- duration hyponym
- calendar week hyponym
- midweek hyponym
- field day hyponym
- lifetime hyponym
- life hyponym
- life hyponym
- millennium hyponym
- bimillennium hyponym
- occupation hyponym
- past hyponym
- shelf life hyponym
- puerperium hyponym
- lactation hyponym
- time of life hyponym
- calendar day hyponym
- festival hyponym
- daylight hyponym
- morning hyponym
- night hyponym
- night hyponym
- night hyponym
- night hyponym
- eve hyponym
- evening hyponym
- week hyponym
- fortnight hyponym
- weekend hyponym
- Indian summer hyponym
- year hyponym
- schooltime hyponym
- year hyponym
- year hyponym
- semester hyponym
- bimester hyponym
- Olympiad hyponym
- lustrum hyponym
- decade hyponym
- century hyponym
- quadrennium hyponym
- quinquennium hyponym
- half-century hyponym
- quarter-century hyponym
- quarter hyponym
- phase of the moon hyponym
- day hyponym
- month hyponym
- mid-January hyponym
- mid-February hyponym
- mid-March hyponym
- mid-April hyponym
- mid-May hyponym
- mid-June hyponym
- mid-July hyponym
- mid-August hyponym
- mid-September hyponym
- mid-October hyponym
- mid-November hyponym
- mid-December hyponym
- time limit hyponym
- term hyponym
- trimester hyponym
- hour hyponym
- silly season hyponym
- Golden Age hyponym
- silver age hyponym
- bronze age hyponym
- iron age hyponym
- great year hyponym
- regulation time hyponym
- extra time hyponym
- time of year hyponym
- dog days hyponym
- midwinter hyponym
- season hyponym
- season hyponym
- long time hyponym
- long run hyponym
- drouth hyponym
- era hyponym
- generation hyponym
- prehistory hyponym
- reign hyponym
- run hyponym
- early days hyponym
- dawn hyponym
- evening hyponym
- time hyponym
- nap hyponym
- term of a contract hyponym
- half life hyponym
- lunar time period hyponym
- stage hyponym
- multistage hyponym
- watch hyponym
- peacetime hyponym
- wartime hyponym
- hitch hyponym
- honeymoon hyponym
- indiction hyponym
- prohibition era hyponym
- incubation period hyponym
- rainy day hyponym
- novitiate hyponym
- flush hyponym
- running time hyponym
- clotting time hyponym
- air alert hyponym
- question time hyponym
- real time hyponym
- real time hyponym
- study hall hyponym
- usance hyponym
- window hyponym
- Bronze Age instance hyponym
- Iron Age instance hyponym
- Stone Age instance hyponym
- Eolithic Age instance hyponym
- Paleolithic Age instance hyponym
- Lower Paleolithic instance hyponym
- Middle Paleolithic instance hyponym
- Upper Paleolithic instance hyponym
- Mesolithic Age instance hyponym
- Neolithic Age instance hyponym
- Great Schism instance hyponym
Sense 2 noun
the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
Types & categories
- interval hypernym
- orbit period hyponym
Related & opposite
- periodical derivation
Sense 3 noun
(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
Types & categories
- division hypernym
Parts & wholes
- playing period part holonym
Related & opposite
- ice hockey domain topic
Sense 4 noun
a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods
Types & categories
- geological time hypernym
- ice age hyponym
- Quaternary instance hyponym
- Tertiary instance hyponym
- Cretaceous instance hyponym
- Jurassic instance hyponym
- Triassic instance hyponym
- Permian instance hyponym
- Carboniferous instance hyponym
- Pennsylvanian instance hyponym
- Mississippian instance hyponym
- Devonian instance hyponym
- Silurian instance hyponym
- Ordovician instance hyponym
- Cambrian instance hyponym
Parts & wholes
- geological era part holonym
- epoch part meronym
Sense 5 noun
the end or completion of something
death put a period to his endeavors
Types & categories
- end hypernym
Related & opposite
- trope domain usage
Sense 6 noun
the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation
Types & categories
- expelling hypernym
- menorrhagia hyponym
- oligomenorrhea hyponym
Related & opposite
- menstruate derivation
- menstrual derivation
Sense 7 noun
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
Types & categories
- punctuation mark hypernym
- suspension point hyponym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | fundamental quantity |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | trial period |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | time frame |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | hours |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | downtime |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | uptime |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | work time |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | time off |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | bout |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | hospitalization |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | travel time |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | times |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | time |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | elapsed time |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | duration |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | calendar week |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | midweek |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | field day |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | lifetime |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | life |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | life |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | millennium |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | bimillennium |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | occupation |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | past |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | shelf life |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | puerperium |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | lactation |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | time of life |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | calendar day |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | festival |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | daylight |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | morning |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | night |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | night |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | night |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | night |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | eve |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | evening |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | week |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | fortnight |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | weekend |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Indian summer |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | year |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | schooltime |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | year |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | year |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | semester |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | bimester |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Olympiad |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | lustrum |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | decade |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | century |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | quadrennium |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | quinquennium |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | half-century |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | quarter-century |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | quarter |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | phase of the moon |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | day |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | month |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | mid-January |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | mid-February |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | mid-March |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | mid-April |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | mid-May |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | mid-June |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | mid-July |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | mid-August |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | mid-September |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | mid-October |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | mid-November |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | mid-December |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | time limit |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | term |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | trimester |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | hour |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | silly season |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Golden Age |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | silver age |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | bronze age |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | iron age |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | great year |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | regulation time |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | extra time |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | time of year |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | dog days |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | midwinter |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | season |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | season |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | long time |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | long run |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | drouth |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | era |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | generation |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | prehistory |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | reign |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | run |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | early days |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | dawn |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | evening |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | time |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | nap |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | term of a contract |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | half life |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | lunar time period |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | stage |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | multistage |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | watch |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | peacetime |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | wartime |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | hitch |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | honeymoon |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | indiction |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | prohibition era |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | incubation period |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | rainy day |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | novitiate |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | flush |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | running time |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | clotting time |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | air alert |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | question time |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | real time |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | real time |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | study hall |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | usance |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | window |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Bronze Age |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Iron Age |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Stone Age |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Eolithic Age |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Paleolithic Age |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Lower Paleolithic |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Middle Paleolithic |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Upper Paleolithic |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Mesolithic Age |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Neolithic Age |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Great Schism |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | periodical |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | interval |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | orbit period |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | ice hockey |
| 3 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | playing period |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | division |
| 4 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | geological era |
| 4 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | epoch |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | geological time |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | ice age |
| 4 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Quaternary |
| 4 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Tertiary |
| 4 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Cretaceous |
| 4 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Jurassic |
| 4 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Triassic |
| 4 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Permian |
| 4 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Carboniferous |
| 4 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Pennsylvanian |
| 4 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Mississippian |
| 4 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Devonian |
| 4 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Silurian |
| 4 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Ordovician |
| 4 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Cambrian |
| 5 | domain usage | Related & opposite | trope |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | end |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | menstruate |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | menstrual |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | expelling |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | menorrhagia |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | oligomenorrhea |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | point |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | point |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | point |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | punctuation mark |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | suspension point |