period
an amount of time
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,503 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 12,177 times across 139,755 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- an amount of time also: time period, period of time a time period of 30 yearshastened the period of time of his recovery
- 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 also: geological period ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods
- the end or completion of something death put a period to his endeavorsa change soon put a period to my tranquility
- the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause also: menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, flow the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruationa woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped
period in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this.
A Tale of Two Cities · Charles Dickens · Chapter 1
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It was at the height of this period that I became engaged to Audrey.
The Little Nugget · P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse · Chapter 1
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Should he become insane after its commission the law steps in and protects him during the period of his insanity.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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Their mirth had something revolting in it; for it was now the last and most acute period of the siege.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Mux, knowing that all conversation was irrevocably closed after his prayers were said, would try every night to prolong this period.
Cornelli · Johanna Spyri · Chapter 1