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A length or portion of time
“You have entered a critical period where the decisions you make will have a profound impact on the rest of your life.”
A flow of organic material from the lining of the uterus
“Many women do not suspect that they are pregnant until their period fails to arrive.”
The punctuation mark indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation
“A name is nothing but two proper nouns with a letter and a period stuck between them.”
(archaic) The final point of a process
“Why, now let me die, for I have lived long enough. This is the period of my ambition.”
Each of the set divisions of the day in a school allocated to a lesson or other activity
“Walking down the hallway towards first period trigonometry, Jordan smiled as she passed her fellow students.”
A sudden short bout of an illness or stress
A period of time when a session is held, typically in a court of law
An interval or passage of time
A fixed point of time in the future where certain processes will be evaluated or assumed to end
A very small dot or mark
Punctuation mark that separates sentence elements
Indicates that no further discussion is possible, required or desirable
“I'm right, and you're wrong. Period!”
(somewhat rare) Belonging to or characteristic of a past historical time, especially in style or design
“We would experience a blast from the past during the intermission when the network screened a period TV commercial.”
Conforming to the zeitgeist, contemporary, trendy, modern
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