PERIOD | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of period in English periodnoun [ C ] uk /ˈpɪə.ri.əd/ us /ˈpɪr.i.əd/

period noun [C] (TIME)

Add to word list Add to word list B1 a length of time: Her work means that she spends long periods away from home.in a period Unemployment in the first half of the year was 2.5 percent lower than in the same period the year before.over a period of 15 people were killed in a period of four days.in a period of In a period of two years, there have been five sets of redundancies.over a period The study will be carried out over a six-month period. a fixed time during the life of a person or in history: Most teenagers go through a rebellious period. The house was built during the Elizabethan period. B1 in school, a division of time in the day when a subject is taught: We have six periods of science a week.double period Many schools have reduced or eliminated music classes to provide double periods of maths and English. one of the fixed times that a sports game is divided into, especially in ice hockey (= a team game played on ice, with curved sticks and a small disc): The match was won and lost in the first period, when Durham fell six goals behind. In the second period he scored by banking the puck off the right post and into the net.

• Her time at university was the most eventful period of her life.
• He was one of the most important writers of that period.
• The war was followed by a long period of peace and prosperity.
• The 1990s were a period of rapid change.
• The police are carrying out spot checks on drivers over the Christmas period to test for alcohol levels.

Periods of time - general words

• age
• all day
• at/in one sitting idiom
• atomic age
• clock
• day
• in the making idiom
• indefinite period
• information age
• intervening period
• intervening years
• ping
• shortly
• sitting
• slot
• span
• spree
• stint
• stretch
• subperiod

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Stages & phases Stages of life Classes & courses Hockey

period noun [C] (BLOOD)

the process of blood coming from the uterus (= the organ in which a baby develops before birth), which usually happens once a month when someone is not pregnant: period pains She'd missed a period and was worried. Obstetrics: processes & stages connected with sexual reproduction

• amniotic
• andropause
• anovulatory
• come on phrasal verb
• ejaculate
• hot flush
• inseminate
• luteal
• matrescence
• menopausal
• menopause
• menses
• menstrual
• menstrual cycle
• ovulation
• puberty
• receptivity
• sexual intercourse
• sexual reproduction
• someone's biological clock is ticking idiom

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period noun [C] (MARK)

mainly US (UK usually full stop) the symbol . used in writing at the end of a sentence or at the end of the short form of a word mainly US said at the end of a statement to show that you believe you have said all there is to say on a subject and you are not going to discuss it any more: There will be no more shouting, period! Punctuation

• abbreviate
• abbreviated
• acute
• ampersand
• asterism
• at sign
• bracket
• caron
• colon
• curly bracket
• hyphen
• parenthesis
• punctuate
• quote mark
• repunctuation
• round bracket
• scare quotes
• slash
• small capitals
• stress mark

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Linguistics: interjections periodadjective [ before noun ] uk /ˈpɪə.ri.əd/ us /ˈpɪr.i.əd/ used to describe clothes, furniture, and other things from a particular time in history: period dress They performed "Julius Caesar" in period dress.period furniture The house, with its period furniture, is in demand as a film location. The film is very impressive in its period detail. Recordings of period music are now widely available, much of it performed on authentic period instruments. See also period costume period drama period piece Old or old-fashioned

• age-old
• ageing
• ancient
• antediluvian
• anti-progressive
• fossilize
• fossilized
• frumpy
• fustily
• have had its/your day idiom
• outdated
• outdatedly
• outmoded
• outworn
• passé
• unprogressive
• unreconstructed
• unsmart
• unstylish
• used

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period | American Dictionary

periodnoun [ C ] us /ˈpɪər·i·əd/

period noun [C] (TIME)

Add to word list Add to word list a length of time: The study will be carried out over a six-month period. A period in the life of a person or in history is a particular time during that life or history: The period after World War II was marked by rapid economic growth. A period is a division of time in an event of fixed length, such as a day at school or a game: There was no scoring in the second period. physics A period is the time it takes for one complete repetition of a pattern that repeats. A second is used as the standard unit in most areas of science. Period costume/dress/furniture is the clothing or furniture of a particular time in history: At the Revolutionary War theme park, everyone was wearing period costumes.

period noun [C] (MARK)

a mark (.) used in writing to show where the end of a sentence is, or to show that the letters before it are an abbreviation (= short word form) infml You can say period at the end of a statement as a way of adding emphasis: There will be no more shouting, period!

period noun [C] (BLEEDING)

(also menstrual period, us/ˈmen·strəlˌpɪr·i·əd, -strə·wəl-/) the bleeding from a woman’s uterus that happens approximately every four weeks when she is not pregnant

period noun [C] (REPEATED EVENT)

science the time needed to complete a regularly repeating event or series of events

period noun [C] (ROW)

chemistry any of the rows in the periodic table of chemical elements (Definition of period from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

period | Business English

periodnoun [ C ] uk /ˈpɪəriəd/ us Add to word list Add to word list a length of time: a period of six months/10 years, etc. This debt is repayable over a period of five years in equal quarterly instalments. Profit fell 75.1% from the same period a year ago. The Government will make an additional 10% contribution for a limited period. The second quarter of the year should have been a busy period.

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accounting period cooling-off period deferment period earnout period payback period pay period qualifying period recovery period reporting period (Definition of period from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of period

period In the first period, the results were encouraging. From the Cambridge English Corpus Finally, planning will time the movement such that a sufficient period of time is available for the control system to operate. From the Cambridge English Corpus The common challenge physiologists, philosophical psychologists, and also physicists set themselves in that period was that of making invisible forces visible. From the Cambridge English Corpus Individual ocelots were photographed as many as 17 times during the cumulative 2-y survey period, though many were recorded only once. From the Cambridge English Corpus In general, little is known about those living on the margins of society during this period, especially in the rural regions. From the Cambridge English Corpus The formal models that are consistent with a critical period rely on innate representations of abstract structure. From the Cambridge English Corpus During the 7-month study period, 448 requests for admission to the unit were made for 381 patients. From the Cambridge English Corpus For the validation, complete medical records were requested for each patient from the participating hospitals for the 12-week study period. From the Cambridge English Corpus During the entire post-war period there are only five occasions (1950, 1951, 1955, 1964 and 1997) in which the parties leapfrog each other. From the Cambridge English Corpus In terms of recreation, culture, education, and even rural industries, the period was characterised as much by development and change as by stagnation and decline. From the Cambridge English Corpus Fifteen infants survived but one baby died in the neonatal period. From the Cambridge English Corpus However, some individuals survived from one period to the next and therefore are represented in both. From the Cambridge English Corpus A 3-min period of dark adaptation was followed by a 1-min period of light adaptation to the two surrounds. From the Cambridge English Corpus Formal political influence over policy increased gradually over the whole period at the expense of technical influence, and social objectives were given priority. From the Cambridge English Corpus Here, language standardization achieved great success in a less developed country with less advanced technical equipment in a fairly short period. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of period These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

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baroque periodIt is as if the baroque period sought to liberate the singularity of classification of knowledge enforced by the architecture of the library to allow a plurality of correspondences. From the Cambridge English Corpus   baseline periodThe first period is the baseline period in the model. From the Cambridge English Corpus   brief periodThat it once enjoyed a brief period of genuine popularity may encourage an affirmative answer. From the Cambridge English Corpus   These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with period What is the pronunciation of period?

Translations of period

in Chinese (Traditional) 時間, 一段時間，時期, （人一生中或歷史上的）時期… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 时间, 一段时间，时期, （人一生中或历史上的）时期… See more in Spanish período, hora, clase… See more in Portuguese período, aula, ponto final… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian काळ, कालखंड, कालावधी… See more 期間, ～の間, （授業の）時間… See more süre, dönem, devre… See more période [feminine], point [masculine], règles [feminine… See more període, hora, classe… See more periode, tijdperk, punt… See more देर या अवधि, दौर, कालखंड… See more સમયગાળો, સમય, કાળ… See more periode, tidsrum, tidsalder… See more period, tidsrymd, skede… See more tempoh, zaman, noktah… See more die Zeitspanne, das Zeitalter, der Punkt… See more periode [masculine], tidsrom [neuter], punktum [neuter]… See more مدت, عرصہ, دور… See more період, час, крапка… See more వ్యవధి, కాల వ్యవధి, దశ… See more সময়ের দৈর্ঘ্য, একজন ব্যক্তির জীবনের বা ইতিহাসের একটি নির্দিষ্ট সময়… See more období, doba, éra… See more masa, zaman, titik… See more ระยะเวลา, สมัย, เครื่องหมายมหัพภาค… See more giai đoạn, kỷ, dấu chấm… See more okres, godzina (lekcyjna), część… See more 기간, (학교에서 일과를 나누어 놓은) 시간, 마침표… See more periodo, lezione, ora… See more Need a translator?

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    • period (TIME)
    • period (BLOOD)
    • period (MARK)
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    • period (TIME)
    • period (MARK)
    • period (BLEEDING)
    • period (REPEATED EVENT)
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