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periods

noun

Meaning

  1. A length of time.
  2. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
  3. The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
  4. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.
  5. Female menstruation.
  6. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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