Meaning of period In English

• 0 a length of time:

  • Her work means that she spends long periods away from home.

  • Unemployment in the first half of the year was 2.5 percent lower than in the same period the year before.

  • 15 people were killed in/over a period of four days.

  • The study will be carried out over a six-month period.

  • We have six periods of science a week.

  • Most teenagers go through a rebellious period.

  • The house was built during the Elizabethan period.

• 1 the bleeding from a woman's womb that happens once a month when she is not pregnant:

  • period pains

  • She'd missed a period and was worried.

• 2 the symbol . used in writing at the end of a sentence or at the end of the short form of a word

  • There will be no more shouting, period!

• 3 the clothes or furniture of a particular time in history:

  • They performed "Julius Caesar" in period dress.

• 4 a length of time:

  • The study will be carried out over a six-month period.

  • The period after World War II was marked by rapid economic growth.

  • There was no scoring in the second period.

  • At the Revolutionary War theme park, everyone was wearing period costumes.

• 5 a mark (.) used in writing to show where the end of a sentence is, or to show that the letters before it are an abbreviation (= short word form)

  • There will be no more shouting, period!

• 6 the bleeding from a woman’s uterus that happens approximately every four weeks when she is not pregnant

• 7 the time needed to complete a regularly repeating event or series of events

• 8 any of the rows in the periodic table of chemical elements

• 9 a length of time:

  • a period of six months/10 years, etc. This debt is repayable over a period of five years in equal quarterly instalments.

  • Profit fell 75.1% from the same period a year ago.

  • The Government will make an additional 10% contribution for a limited period.

  • The second quarter of the year should have been a busy period.