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period

English

  1. 🔊 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”
  2. 🔊 the end or completion of something
    “death put a period to his endeavors”
  3. 🔊 a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
    “ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods”
  4. 🔊 (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
  5. 🔊 the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
  6. 🔊 an amount of time
    “a time period of 30 years”
  7. 🔊 the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
    “the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 ciclo period
  2. 🔊 fase period
  3. 🔊 plazo period, phase
  4. 🔊 achaque period, menstruation
  5. 🔊 punto period, end of story
  6. 🔊 periodo period, menstrual cycle

Similar words

point full stop stop full point menstruation menses menstruum catamenia flow time period period of time geological period alexandrine archean archeozoic cambrian carboniferous cenozoic comanchean cretaceous devonian eocene glacial holocene