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Period

noun

An amount of time. Synonyms: period of time, time period. "Hastened the period of time of his recovery" , "Picasso's blue period"

The interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon.

(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games.

A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed. Synonym: geological period.

The end or completion of something. "A change soon put a period to my tranquility"

The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause. Synonyms: catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, menstruum. "A woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped" , "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"

A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations. Synonyms: full point, full stop, point, stop.

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"Period" Quotes from Famous Books

... beaten on all sides; it is gone, never to return. She has seen that the affair is a little too deep for that, and the field not tenable. She will erect barriers in order to defend herself and will no longer attack.' Thus we pass from the period of amiable smiles, sweet glances, and half-avowals to that of severity and prudery, while waiting for the remorse and despair of the denouement. I am sure that at this time she called to her help all her powers of resistance. From that day she ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... the limits of the culture-epoch theory of human development as a complete guide in education, it is clear that the young child passes through a period when his mind looks out upon the world in a manner analogous to that of the folk as expressed in their literature. Quarrel with the fact as we may, it still remains a fact that his nature craves these old stories and will not be satisfied ...

— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry

... damped the ardor of the French court, and further colonization plans hung trembling in the balance. But during the period of this fluctuating policy several navigators and merchants of Normandy, Bretony, and elsewhere, sailed up the St. Lawrence on their own account, established many trading posts, and carried on a sufficiently lucrative trade with the savages. Their mercantile success ...

— The Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois • Anon.

... practicable remedy is to pick these insects by hand. We can, however, protect our young plants by small nettings and thus tide them over the most dangerous period of their lives. These bugs greatly prefer the squash as food. You can therefore diminish their attack on your melons, cucumbers, etc. by planting among the melons an occasional squash plant as a "trap plant." Hand ...

— Agriculture for Beginners - Revised Edition • Charles William Burkett

... in the matter, and the officers having confessed that the first words came from them, the Justices contented themselves with imposing a fine upon my father, and binding him over to keep the peace for a period ...

— Micah Clarke - His Statement as made to his three Grandchildren Joseph, - Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 • Arthur Conan Doyle

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