Hyphenation of periods

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word periods? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

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Definitions of periods:

1.	An amount of time A time period of 30 years Hastened the period of time of his recovery Picasso's blue period
2.	The interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
3.	(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
4.	A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed Ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods
5.	The end or completion of something Death put a period to his endeavors A change soon put a period to my tranquility
6.	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
7.	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

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.