Period
/ˈpɪəɹɪəd/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:9 ptsWWF:10 pts6 letters
Definition of Period
noun
- A length of time.
"There was a period of confusion following the announcement."
- A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
"Food rationing continued in the post-war period."
- The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
- The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.
- Female menstruation.
"When she is on her period, she prefers not to go swimming."
adjective
- Designating anything from a given historical era.
"a period TV commercial"
- Evoking, or appropriate for, a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate costumes and scenery.
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