period
noun
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an amount of time
a time period of 30 years
Types & categories
- fundamental quantity
- trial period
- time frame
- hours
- downtime
- uptime
- work time
- time off
- bout
- hospitalization
- travel time
- times
- time
- elapsed time
- duration
- calendar week
- midweek
- field day
- lifetime
- life
- life
- millennium
- bimillennium
- occupation
- past
- shelf life
- puerperium
- lactation
- time of life
- calendar day
- festival
- daylight
- morning
- night
- night
- night
- night
- eve
- evening
- week
- fortnight
- weekend
- Indian summer
- year
- schooltime
- year
- year
- semester
- bimester
- Olympiad
- lustrum
- decade
- century
- quadrennium
- quinquennium
- half-century
- quarter-century
- quarter
- phase of the moon
- day
- month
- mid-January
- mid-February
- mid-March
- mid-April
- mid-May
- mid-June
- mid-July
- mid-August
- mid-September
- mid-October
- mid-November
- mid-December
- time limit
- term
- trimester
- hour
- silly season
- Golden Age
- silver age
- bronze age
- iron age
- great year
- regulation time
- extra time
- time of year
- dog days
- midwinter
- season
- season
- long time
- long run
- drouth
- era
- generation
- prehistory
- reign
- run
- early days
- dawn
- evening
- time
- nap
- term of a contract
- half life
- lunar time period
- stage
- multistage
- watch
- peacetime
- wartime
- hitch
- honeymoon
- indiction
- prohibition era
- incubation period
- rainy day
- novitiate
- flush
- running time
- clotting time
- air alert
- question time
- real time
- real time
- study hall
- usance
- window
- Bronze Age
- Iron Age
- Stone Age
- Eolithic Age
- Paleolithic Age
- Lower Paleolithic
- Middle Paleolithic
- Upper Paleolithic
- Mesolithic Age
- Neolithic Age
- Great Schism
Sense 2 noun
the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
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Sense 3 noun
(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
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Sense 4 noun
a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods
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Parts & wholes
Sense 5 noun
the end or completion of something
death put a period to his endeavors
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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
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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
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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 |