Definition for Period:

• The time in which anything is performed: ( astr.) the time occupied by a body in its revolution: a stated and recurring interval of time: a series of years: length of duration: the time at which anything ends: conclusion: ( gram.) a mark at the end of a sentence (.): ( rhet.) a complete sentence. See DATE, EPOCH, ERA.

Synonyms for Period:

• n.

  •age (noun)
  • age,
  • oldness,
  • longevity,
  • eon,
  • epoch.
  •close (noun)
  • windup.
  •day (noun)
  • height,
  • years.
  •degree (noun)
  • stair,
  • plane,
  • rung.
  •due date (noun)
  • deadline.
  •duration (noun)
  • spell,
  • continuance,
  • measure,
  • interim.
  •end (noun)
  • close,
  • exit,
  • conclusion,
  • accomplishment,
  • closing,
  • end,
  • finish,
  • death,
  • culmination,
  • expiration,
  • demise,
  • finale,
  • terminus,
  • checkmate,
  • termination,
  • halt,
  • completion,
  • cessation.
  •ending (noun)
  • closure,
  • stop,
  • omega,
  • discontinuance,
  • limit.
  •extent of time (noun)
  • space,
  • while,
  • stretch,
  • stage,
  • days,
  • term.
  •full stop (noun)
  • dead stop,
  • decimal point,
  • full point.
  •indefinite duration (noun)
  • lapse,
  • eternity,
  • forever.
  •point of time (noun)
  • century,
  • millennium,
  • month,
  • millisecond,
  • microsecond,
  • decade,
  • minute,
  • week,
  • second.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • half-day,
  • recess,
  • stopping point.
  •
  • plateau,
  • circle,
  • consummation.
  •
  • wrap up,
  • class,
  • timetable,
  • lesson.
  •
  • school.
  •
  • cease.
  •match
  • bout.
  •Other relevant words:
  • derail,
  • boundary,
  • quantity,
  • jingle,
  • recent,
  • width,
  • look,
  • blockage,
  • vernal equinox,
  • paroxysm,
  • episode,
  • realize,
  • volley,
  • quotation marks,
  • wind-up,
  • extreme,
  • ecliptic,
  • type,
  • reinforcement,
  • burst,
  • weight,
  • epilogue,
  • ornament,
  • step,
  • distance,
  • standing,
  • semiannual,
  • early,
  • menstrual,
  • flow,
  • peroration,
  • portion,
  • braces,
  • expression,
  • pound sign,
  • adjectival phrase,
  • style,
  • time frame,
  • envoi,
  • next,
  • sentence,
  • amphibrach,
  • past,
  • mode,
  • pause,
  • class period,
  • again,
  • yearbook,
  • late,
  • pointedness,
  • occasion,
  • stream,
  • continually,
  • contemporary,
  • jot,
  • lilt,
  • construct,
  • coda,
  • Idiotism,
  • surface wave,
  • hexameter,
  • curse,
  • outburst,
  • require,
  • plosive speech sound,
  • kind,
  • doom,
  • autumnal equinox,
  • leap,
  • metron,
  • punctuation,
  • exposition,
  • section,
  • last,
  • Izzard,
  • generally,
  • later,
  • effect,
  • tailpiece,
  • flow rate,
  • evidence,
  • extent,
  • time lag,
  • construction,
  • dash,
  • flowing,
  • frequency band,
  • interrupt,
  • find,
  • catamenia,
  • rhythm,
  • prehistorical,
  • position,
  • streak,
  • autumnal,
  • Antispast,
  • level,
  • Sublineation,
  • Trimeter,
  • watch,
  • along,
  • fashionable,
  • swan song,
  • fast,
  • close upon,
  • crest,
  • classy,
  • fashion,
  • verse,
  • iambic,
  • destiny,
  • scale,
  • underlining,
  • tense,
  • link,
  • Amphimacer,
  • shock wave,
  • juncture,
  • build,
  • furthermore,
  • remit,
  • rear,
  • block,
  • nuance,
  • degree,
  • noun phrase,
  • tail end,
  • verge,
  • flowers,
  • new,
  • blowoff,
  • reach,
  • nighttime,
  • turn off,
  • leap year,
  • line,
  • Menstruum,
  • geological period,
  • trendy,
  • instant,
  • Dochmiac,
  • intermit,
  • division,
  • seasonableness,
  • often,
  • burnout,
  • resonance,
  • tide,
  • strain,
  • forwards,
  • moment of truth,
  • form,
  • gable end,
  • meantime,
  • metrical unit,
  • sine die,
  • compass point,
  • equinox,
  • outbreak,
  • utterance,
  • night,
  • gap,
  • feast,
  • place,
  • bottom dollar,
  • tertiary,
  • intermezzo,
  • orbit,
  • carat,
  • disintegration,
  • dry season,
  • courses,
  • spondee,
  • hyphen,
  • asterisk,
  • trajectory,
  • anapest,
  • thesis,
  • incessantly,
  • final twitch,
  • beat,
  • greet,
  • nightly,
  • Amidst,
  • apostrophe,
  • resolution,
  • have,
  • triassic,
  • design,
  • diaphragm,
  • seasonality,
  • diaeresis,
  • final solution,
  • thereupon,
  • peak,
  • oftentimes,
  • plus sign,
  • phrase,
  • arrows,
  • paragraph,
  • deactivate,
  • notch,
  • Ceasing,
  • baseball season,
  • meridian,
  • ne'er,
  • menses,
  • flood,
  • iamb,
  • caliber,
  • station,
  • verb phrase,
  • intromit,
  • regularly,
  • more,
  • take,
  • time limit,
  • plosive consonant,
  • midweekly,
  • occlusive,
  • rear guard,
  • space-time,
  • puerperal,
  • distributor point,
  • exclamation point,
  • junction,
  • scope,
  • antinode,
  • Into,
  • rainy season,
  • much,
  • destination,
  • simultaneous,
  • phrasal idiom,
  • compass,
  • ofttimes,
  • ordinarily,
  • figure,
  • groundhog day,
  • make,
  • manner,
  • prime,
  • sort,
  • accent,
  • interference,
  • ampersand,
  • caesura,
  • decease,
  • never,
  • Anacrusis,
  • quaternary,
  • range,
  • whole time,
  • ictus,
  • area,
  • then,
  • Monthlies,
  • midst,
  • yuletide,
  • wavelength,
  • size,
  • patch,
  • nocturnal,
  • curly brackets,
  • nib,
  • glacial,
  • Since,
  • payoff,
  • pattern,
  • for,
  • cadence,
  • shadow,
  • proportion,
  • tetrameter,
  • menstrual period,
  • tour,
  • chic,
  • ratio,
  • semicolon,
  • revolve,
  • historical period,
  • detail,
  • Arsis,
  • wait,
  • elegant,
  • iota,
  • electromagnetic wave,
  • chorus,
  • in phase,
  • point of view,
  • apogee,
  • Upon,
  • Tetrapody,
  • genre,
  • response,
  • Tribrach,
  • stanza,
  • cut short,
  • on,
  • Ritornello,
  • force,
  • Of,
  • frequently,
  • pitch,
  • celestial equator,
  • Apodosis,
  • prehistoric,
  • engagement,
  • usage,
  • routine,
  • passage,
  • Proceleusmatic,
  • measurement,
  • occlusion,
  • carry,
  • development stage,
  • slashes,
  • hachure,
  • gunpoint,
  • nevermore,
  • capacity,
  • moment,
  • stress,
  • wave equation,
  • suspend,
  • replace,
  • magnitude,
  • swing,
  • During,
  • mid,
  • execute,
  • subsequently,
  • breaker point,
  • dimension,
  • double quotes,
  • continuity,
  • spot,
  • folderol,
  • brackets,
  • from that time,
  • uttermost,
  • perihelion,
  • natal day,
  • Eftsoons,
  • equals sign,
  • emphasis,
  • cedilla,
  • equator,
  • interlude,
  • reign,
  • Among,
  • diffraction,
  • hitch,
  • sound wave,
  • inside,
  • deliver,
  • popular,
  • in the sequel,
  • succession,
  • work,
  • social season,
  • cut,
  • contemporaneous,
  • edge,
  • depth,
  • variation,
  • afterwards,
  • finality,
  • head,
  • bicentennial,
  • cretaceous,
  • rate of flow,
  • metrical foot,
  • quietus,
  • endpoint,
  • last word,
  • radio wave,
  • Amid,
  • variety,
  • break,
  • check,
  • locution,
  • node,
  • Paeon,
  • way of speaking,
  • Interpel,
  • colon,
  • Parentheses,
  • clause,
  • opportunity,
  • rank,
  • shade,
  • set phrase,
  • remove,
  • celestial longitude,
  • conceive,
  • equinoctial circle,
  • zone,
  • stint,
  • mechanical wave,
  • create,
  • trochee,
  • configuration,
  • dactyl,
  • calibre,
  • curtain,
  • present,
  • when,
  • o'clock,
  • crack of doom,
  • footage,
  • denouement,
  • meltdown,
  • burden,
  • football season,
  • fit,
  • amount,
  • expect,
  • delay,
  • pyrrhic,
  • after a while,
  • longitudinal wave,
  • Desinence,
  • attain,
  • thereafter,
  • lacuna,
  • heptameter,
  • wave motion,
  • equinoctial colure,
  • evening,
  • Epitrite,
  • syzygy,
  • foot,
  • Colures,
  • turn of expression,
  • status,
  • catch,
  • Pentapody,
  • ionic,
  • jotting,
  • ahead,
  • tilde,
  • transverse wave,
  • shape,
  • wave number,
  • trough,
  • amount of time,
  • interruption,
  • bimestrial,
  • turn of phrase,
  • extremity,
  • cold season,
  • tail,
  • tread,
  • yardage,
  • lunation,
  • equinoctial,
  • seasonable,
  • Italics,
  • power down,
  • final words,
  • curtains,
  • entr'acte,
  • celestial meridian,
  • definitive,
  • goal,
  • sprung rhythm,
  • resonance frequency,
  • period of time,
  • repeatedly,
  • stop consonant,
  • mark,
  • blowout,
  • zodiac,
  • Mora,
  • part,
  • Dimeter,
  • accomplish,
  • elegiac couplet,
  • tip,
  • footing,
  • heroic couplet,
  • at no time,
  • that time,
  • booking,
  • basketball season,
  • amplitude,
  • rest,
  • tidal wave,
  • acreage,
  • end point,
  • Bacchius,
  • rota,
  • biannual,
  • layover,
  • note,
  • breadth,
  • time period,
  • stand,
  • solstitial colure,
  • iambic pentameter,
  • fleck,
  • seismic wave,
  • catastrophe,
  • bridge,
  • blaze,
  • numbers,
  • ray,
  • page,
  • great circle,
  • forward slash,
  • experience,
  • millennial,
  • periods,
  • Molossus,
  • power point,
  • commonly,
  • disconnect,
  • synchronous,
  • percent sign,
  • development,
  • chronology,
  • spate,
  • pas,
  • item,
  • current,
  • Against,
  • stoppage,
  • hold,
  • dab,
  • idiom,
  • standard,
  • last breath,
  • once,
  • Cretic,
  • elegiac,
  • annotation,
  • constantly,
  • hebdomadal,
  • aphelion,
  • Dipody,
  • Amongst,
  • wave,
  • upon which,
  • peg,
  • menstruation,
  • falderal,
  • single quote,
  • comma,
  • tag,
  • question mark,
  • accentuation,
  • tonnage,
  • grade,
  • Verbalism,
  • time of year,
  • assume,
  • light,
  • Tutti,
  • frequency spectrum,
  • intermission,
  • bring in,
  • residence time,
  • pentameter,
  • get,
  • Bissextile,
  • hiatus,
  • bourdon,
  • concurrent,
  • movement,
  • musical phrase,
  • snap,
  • habitually,
  • coincident,
  • last words,
  • syntactic structure,
  • stopover,
  • statement,
  • perigee,
  • moon,
  • historic period,
  • counterpoint,
  • small circle,
  • fate,
  • birthday,
  • Tripody,
  • thirty,
  • eschatology,
  • compel,
  • cerrado,
  • heyday,
  • switch off,
  • after,
  • between,
  • refrain,
  • modern,
  • category,
  • catalexis,
  • psychological moment,
  • usually,
  • bar,
  • arrest,
  • meter,
  • manner of speaking,
  • reference,
  • volume.

Paraphrases for Period:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    time, era.
  • Noun, plural
    moments, seasons, maturities, durations.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    time-period, periodicity, epoch, sub-period, time, era.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, plural
    holdings.
  • Proper noun, singular
    newspapers, Drills, Houses, Rights, covers, Temps, data, women, goods.
  • Noun, plural
    intervals, offenders, extensions, transmissions, explanations, weeks, Premiums, Remittances, dates, situations.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Criteria, Chairmen, Bis, takes, data, timescale, timespan, time-frame, episode, meantime, installment, mandate, juncture, timetable, menstruation, lapse.
  • Verb, past tense
    Occurred, covered, Were.
  • Verb, past participle
    Submitted.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    are.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    occurs, lasts, runs.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    time-limit, time-frame.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    time-limit, moment, expiration.
  • Verb, base form
    time.

Antonyms for Period:

• n.

  • ending
    commencement, start, introduction, continuation, beginning, opening.

Holonyms for Period:

• n.

  • time
    playing period, period of play, play.

Hypernym for Period:

• n.

  • time
    elapsed time, millenary, hours, tour of duty, Quadrennium, midweek, lactation, years, dawn, incubation period, half-life, tour, life, Drouth, time, year, long haul, peak, term, long run, epoch, silver age, lifespan, Canicular Days, prohibition, generation, run, forenoon, half life, blossom, yr, night, noviciate, long time, trimester, lunar time period, sleep, lease, early days, question time, mid-june, calendar week, downtime, time of life, hebdomad, orbit period, decade, work time, heyday, life-time, canicule, uptime, mid-august, daylight, mid-december, golden age, indiction, mid-april, shelf life, platonic year, two weeks, calendar month, nighttime, overtime, prehistoric culture, continuance, morning time, time of year, evening, air alert, Quinquennium, bloom, mid-february, quarter-century, travel time, regulation time, day, prehistory, bronze age, flush, great year, puerperium, season, semester, quarter, month, fortnight, usance, mid-july, field day, school day, schooltime, century, mid-october, dark, window, mid-january, Indian Summer, tide, bimillennium, time off, trial period, time limit, twelvemonth, mid-november, olympiad, phase, school, rainy day, prime, prohibition era, peacetime, age, lustrum, real time, phase of the moon, extra time, drought, bimester, duty tour, calendar day, running time, decennary, honeymoon, dog days, half-century, mid-september, eve, morn, morning, mid-march, daytime, term of enlistment, enlistment, nap, iron age, term of a contract, occupation, wartime, time frame, festival, era, times, midwinter, mid-may, saint martin's summer, past, efflorescence, novitiate, reign, flower, bimillenary, week, millennium, hitch, grace period, clotting time, lifetime, youth, hour, hospitalization, civil day, weekend, duration, decennium, test period, bout, grace, silly season, multistage, watch, study hall, stage.

Hyponym for Period:

• n.

  • time
    division, fundamental measure, part, fundamental quantity, ending, end, interval, time interval, section.