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period
Overview of noun period
The noun period has 8 senses (first 8 from tagged texts)
1. (656) time period, period of time, period -- (an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period")
2. (190) period -- (one of three periods of play in hockey games)
3. (157) period, historic period, historical period -- (a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period")
4. (54) period -- (the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon)
5. (3) menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow -- (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. (3) period, point, full stop, stop, full point -- (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. (2) period, geological period -- (a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods")
8. (1) period -- (the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun period
8 senses of period
Sense 1
time period, period of time, period
=> fundamental quantity, fundamental measure
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
period
=> playing period, period of play, play
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
period, historic period, historical period
=> time period, period of time, period
=> fundamental quantity, fundamental measure
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
period
=> time interval, interval
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 5
menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow
=> discharge, emission, expelling
=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
=> organic process, biological process
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 6
period, point, full stop, stop, full point
=> punctuation, punctuation mark
=> mark
=> written symbol, printed symbol
=> symbol
=> signal, signaling, sign
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 7
period, geological period
=> geological time, geologic time
=> time
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 8
period
=> end, ending
=> point, point in time
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun period
5 of 8 senses of period
Sense 1
time period, period of time, period
=> trial period, test period
=> time frame
=> hours
=> downtime
=> uptime
=> work time
=> time off
=> bout
=> hospitalization
=> travel time
=> times
=> time
=> elapsed time
=> duration, continuance
=> week, calendar week
=> midweek
=> field day
=> life, lifetime, life-time, lifespan
=> life
=> life
=> millennium, millenary
=> bimillennium, bimillenary
=> occupation
=> past
=> shelf life
=> puerperium
=> lactation
=> time of life
=> calendar day, civil day
=> festival
=> day, daytime, daylight
=> morning, morn, morning time, forenoon
=> night, nighttime, dark
=> night
=> night
=> night
=> eve
=> evening
=> week, hebdomad
=> fortnight, two weeks
=> weekend
=> Indian summer, Saint Martin's summer
=> year
=> school, schooltime, school day
=> year, twelvemonth, yr
=> year
=> semester
=> bimester
=> Olympiad
=> lustrum
=> decade, decennary, decennium
=> century
=> quadrennium
=> quinquennium
=> half-century
=> quarter-century
=> quarter
=> phase of the moon
=> day
=> calendar month, 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
HAS INSTANCE=> Bronze Age
=> iron age
HAS INSTANCE=> Iron Age
HAS INSTANCE=> Stone Age
HAS INSTANCE=> Eolithic Age, Eolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Paleolithic Age, Paleolithic, Palaeolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Lower Paleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Middle Paleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Upper Paleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Mesolithic Age, Mesolithic, Epipaleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Neolithic Age, Neolithic, New Stone Age
=> great year, Platonic year
=> regulation time
=> overtime, extra time
=> season, time of year
=> dog days, canicule, canicular days
=> midwinter
=> season
=> season
=> long time, age, years
=> long run, long haul
=> drought, drouth
=> era, epoch
=> generation
=> prehistory, prehistoric culture
=> reign
=> run
=> youth, early days
=> dawn
=> evening
=> time
=> sleep, nap
=> lease, term of a contract
=> half life, half-life
=> tide, lunar time period
=> phase, stage
=> multistage
=> watch
=> peacetime
=> wartime
=> enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty, duty tour, tour
=> honeymoon
=> indiction
=> prohibition, prohibition era
=> incubation period
=> rainy day
=> novitiate, noviciate
=> flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush
=> running time
=> period, historic period, historical period
=> clotting time
=> air alert
HAS INSTANCE=> Great Schism
=> question time
=> real time
=> real time
=> study hall
=> usance
=> window
Sense 4
period
=> orbit period
Sense 5
menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow
=> menorrhagia, hypermenorrhea
=> oligomenorrhea
Sense 6
period, point, full stop, stop, full point
=> suspension point
Sense 7
period, geological period
HAS INSTANCE=> Quaternary, Quaternary period, Age of Man
HAS INSTANCE=> Tertiary, Tertiary period
HAS INSTANCE=> Cretaceous, Cretaceous period
HAS INSTANCE=> Jurassic, Jurassic period
HAS INSTANCE=> Triassic, Triassic period
HAS INSTANCE=> Permian, Permian period
HAS INSTANCE=> Carboniferous, Carboniferous period
HAS INSTANCE=> Pennsylvanian, Pennsylvanian period, Upper Carboniferous, Upper Carboniferous period
HAS INSTANCE=> Mississippian, Missippian period, Lower Carboniferous, Lower Carboniferous period
HAS INSTANCE=> Devonian, Devonian period, Age of Fishes
HAS INSTANCE=> Silurian, Silurian period
HAS INSTANCE=> Ordovician, Ordovician period
HAS INSTANCE=> Cambrian, Cambrian period
=> ice age, glacial period, glacial epoch
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun period
8 senses of period
Sense 1
time period, period of time, period
=> fundamental quantity, fundamental measure
Sense 2
period
=> playing period, period of play, play
Sense 3
period, historic period, historical period
=> time period, period of time, period
Sense 4
period
=> time interval, interval
Sense 5
menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow
=> discharge, emission, expelling
Sense 6
period, point, full stop, stop, full point
=> punctuation, punctuation mark
Sense 7
period, geological period
=> geological time, geologic time
Sense 8
period
=> end, ending
Antonyms of noun period
Member Holonyms of noun period
Substance Holonyms of noun period
Part Holonyms of noun period
1 of 8 senses of period
Sense 7
period, geological period
PART OF: era, geological era
Member Meronyms of noun period
Substance Meronyms of noun period
Part Meronyms of noun period
1 of 8 senses of period
Sense 7
period, geological period
HAS PART: epoch
Meronyms of noun period
1 of 8 senses of period
Sense 7
period, geological period
HAS PART: epoch
Holonyms of noun period
1 of 8 senses of period
Sense 7
period, geological period
PART OF: era, geological era
Attributes of noun period
Derived Forms of noun period
1 of 8 senses of period
Sense 4
period
RELATED TO>(adj) periodical#1
=> periodic, periodical
Domain of noun period
Domain Terms of noun period
Familiarity of noun period
period used as a noun is common (polysemy count =8)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun period
8 senses of period
Sense 1
time period, period of time, period
> fundamental quantity, fundamental measure
=> temperature
=> mass
=> length
=> time period, period of time, period
Sense 2
period
> playing period, period of play, play
=> hole, golf hole
=> chukker, chukka
=> inning, frame
=> set
=> turn, bout, round
=> first period
=> second period
=> third period
=> final period
=> half
=> period
=> quarter
=> over
Sense 3
period, historic period, historical period
> time period, period of time, period
=> trial period, test period
=> time frame
=> hours
=> downtime
=> uptime
=> work time
=> time off
=> bout
=> hospitalization
=> travel time
=> times
=> time
=> elapsed time
=> duration, continuance
=> week, calendar week
=> midweek
=> field day
=> life, lifetime, life-time, lifespan
=> life
=> life
=> millennium, millenary
=> bimillennium, bimillenary
=> occupation
=> past
=> shelf life
=> puerperium
=> lactation
=> time of life
=> calendar day, civil day
=> festival
=> day, daytime, daylight
=> morning, morn, morning time, forenoon
=> night, nighttime, dark
=> night
=> night
=> night
=> eve
=> evening
=> week, hebdomad
=> fortnight, two weeks
=> weekend
=> Indian summer, Saint Martin's summer
=> year
=> school, schooltime, school day
=> year, twelvemonth, yr
=> year
=> semester
=> bimester
=> Olympiad
=> lustrum
=> decade, decennary, decennium
=> century
=> quadrennium
=> quinquennium
=> half-century
=> quarter-century
=> quarter
=> phase of the moon
=> day
=> calendar month, 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
HAS INSTANCE=> Bronze Age
=> iron age
HAS INSTANCE=> Iron Age
HAS INSTANCE=> Stone Age
HAS INSTANCE=> Eolithic Age, Eolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Paleolithic Age, Paleolithic, Palaeolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Lower Paleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Middle Paleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Upper Paleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Mesolithic Age, Mesolithic, Epipaleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Neolithic Age, Neolithic, New Stone Age
=> great year, Platonic year
=> regulation time
=> overtime, extra time
=> season, time of year
=> dog days, canicule, canicular days
=> midwinter
=> season
=> season
=> long time, age, years
=> long run, long haul
=> drought, drouth
=> era, epoch
=> generation
=> prehistory, prehistoric culture
=> reign
=> run
=> youth, early days
=> dawn
=> evening
=> time
=> sleep, nap
=> lease, term of a contract
=> half life, half-life
=> tide, lunar time period
=> phase, stage
=> multistage
=> watch
=> peacetime
=> wartime
=> enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty, duty tour, tour
=> honeymoon
=> indiction
=> prohibition, prohibition era
=> incubation period
=> rainy day
=> novitiate, noviciate
=> flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush
=> running time
=> period, historic period, historical period
=> clotting time
=> air alert
HAS INSTANCE=> Great Schism
=> question time
=> real time
=> real time
=> study hall
=> usance
=> window
Sense 4
period
> time interval, interval
=> access time
=> distance, space
=> embolism, intercalation
=> seek time
=> time constant
=> time slot, slot
=> lunitidal interval
=> absence
=> pause, intermission, break, interruption, suspension
=> interlude
=> interim, meantime, meanwhile, lag
=> latent period
=> reaction time, response time, latency, latent period
=> eternity
=> cycle, rhythm, round
=> lead time
=> period
=> float
=> rotational latency, latency
=> processing time
Sense 5
menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow
> discharge, emission, expelling
=> ejaculation
=> elimination, evacuation, excretion, excreting, voiding
=> menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow
Sense 6
period, point, full stop, stop, full point
> punctuation, punctuation mark
=> ampersand
=> apostrophe
=> brace
=> bracket, square bracket
=> bracket, angle bracket
=> colon
=> comma
=> exclamation mark, exclamation point
=> hyphen, dash
=> parenthesis
=> period, point, full stop, stop, full point
=> question mark, interrogation point
=> quotation mark, quote, inverted comma
=> semicolon
=> solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal, stroke, separatrix
=> swung dash
Sense 7
period, geological period
> geological time, geologic time
=> eon, aeon
=> period, geological period
=> era, geological era
=> epoch
Sense 8
period
> end, ending
=> death, last
=> death, dying, demise
=> period
=> year-end
=> stopping point, finale, finis, finish, last, conclusion, close
=> cease
=> fag end, tail, tail end
=> last gasp
=> termination, expiration, expiry
=> terminus ad quem, terminal point, limit
Meronyms of noun period
8 senses of period
Sense 7
period, geological period
HAS PART: epoch
Holonyms of noun period
1 of 8 senses of period
Sense 7
period, geological period
PART OF: era, geological era
PART OF: eon, aeon
Grep of noun period
cambrian period
carboniferous period
class period
cretaceous period
devonian period
duty period
fertile period
final period
first period
geological period
gestation period
glacial period
historic period
historical period
incubation period
jurassic period
latency period
latent period
lower carboniferous period
lunar time period
lunch period
missippian period
neonatal period
orbit period
ordovician period
overtime period
pennsylvanian period
period
period of play
period of time
period piece
periodic acid
periodic apnea of the newborn
periodic breathing
periodic event
periodic law
periodic motion
periodic movement
periodic sentence
periodic table
periodical
periodical cicada
periodicity
periodontal disease
periodontia
periodontics
periodontist
periodontitis
permian period
playing period
precambrian period
quaternary period
reconstruction period
refractory period
rest period
safe period
second period
silurian period
tertiary period
test period
third period
time period
trial period
triassic period
twenty-four hour period
upper carboniferous period
Grep of adj period
periodic
periodical
periodontal
periodontic
Grep of adv period
periodically
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