Wondering how to hyphenate the English word period? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.
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An amount of time A time period of 30 years Hastened the period of time of his recovery Picasso's blue period |
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The interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon |
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(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games |
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A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed Ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods |
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The end or completion of something Death put a period to his endeavors A change soon put a period to my tranquility |
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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 |
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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 |
| noun | time period, period of time, fundamental quantity, fundamental measure
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| noun | playing period, period of play, play |
| noun | historic period, historical period, time period, period of time
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| noun | time interval, interval |
| noun | menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, flow, discharge, emission, expelling |
| noun | point, full stop, stop, full point, punctuation, punctuation mark
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| noun | geological period, geological time, geologic time
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| noun | end, ending |