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)
  • eon,
  • generation,
  • time,
  • era,
  • longevity,
  • epoch,
  • oldness,
  • duration,
  • age,
  • lifetime,
  • lastingness.
  •close (noun)
  • windup.
  •condition (noun)
  • phase.
  •day (noun)
  • height,
  • years.
  •degree (noun)
  • stair,
  • plane,
  • rung.
  •due date (noun)
  • deadline.
  •duration (noun)
  • course,
  • continuance,
  • season,
  • span,
  • spell,
  • age,
  • aeon,
  • interim,
  • length,
  • era,
  • date,
  • life,
  • interval,
  • duration,
  • cycle,
  • epoch,
  • measure.
  •end (noun)
  • accomplishment,
  • demise,
  • terminus,
  • halt,
  • closing,
  • expiration,
  • finale,
  • ending,
  • culmination,
  • completion,
  • close,
  • windup,
  • conclusion,
  • finis,
  • finish,
  • cessation,
  • death,
  • checkmate,
  • terminal,
  • exit,
  • end,
  • termination.
  •ending (noun)
  • closing,
  • discontinuance,
  • termination,
  • conclusion,
  • omega,
  • closure,
  • stop,
  • close,
  • cessation,
  • limit,
  • end.
  •extent of time (noun)
  • aeon,
  • generation,
  • while,
  • stretch,
  • date,
  • space,
  • span,
  • measure,
  • epoch,
  • days,
  • cycle,
  • years,
  • duration,
  • spell,
  • stage,
  • age,
  • era,
  • course,
  • term,
  • season,
  • interval,
  • time.
  •full stop (noun)
  • dead stop,
  • decimal point,
  • full point.
  •indefinite duration (noun)
  • lapse,
  • eternity,
  • forever.
  •lesson (noun)
  • lesson.
  •period of time (noun)
  • time frame.
  •point of time (noun)
  • decade,
  • second,
  • hour,
  • month,
  • century,
  • minute,
  • millisecond,
  • week,
  • millennium,
  • term,
  • semester,
  • microsecond,
  • year,
  • day.
  •stopping point (noun)
  • stopping point,
  • wind-up.
  •time (noun)
  • period of time,
  • time period.
  •time interval (noun)
  • space,
  • while.
  •unit of measurement (noun)
  • degree.

• Other synonyms:

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

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.