period

period is a 6-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, transitive verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet.
2. noun. A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic.
3. noun. One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.
4. noun. The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion.
5. noun. A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence.
6. noun. The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word.
7. noun. One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals.
8. noun. The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission.
9. noun. A complete musical sentence.
10. transitive verb. To put an end to.
11. intransitive verb. To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc.
12. noun. a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

    "in England they call a period a stop"

    Synonyms: point, stop

13. noun. the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause--Hippocrates--Aristotle

    "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"

    "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"

    Synonyms: catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, menstruum

14. noun. an amount of time

    "a time period of 30 years"

    "hastened the period of time of his recovery"

15. noun. the end or completion of something

    "death put a period to his endeavors"

    "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"

16. noun. a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed

    "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"

17. noun. (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
18. noun. the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon

Synonyms

point, stop, catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, menstruum

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in period:

dopier

Common word forms

periods, periodize

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