period


Meanings

  • an amount of time;
    • "a time period of 30 years"
    • "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;
    • "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
  • the end or completion of something;
    • "death put a period to his endeavors"
    • "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
  • the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; --Aristotle
  • 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"
  • PERIOD n pl. -S a portion of time


Scrabble Score: 9

period is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word

period is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary

period is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary


Words With Friends Score: 10

period is a valid Words With Friends word