period

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adjective 1.4 Interjection 1.4.1 Synonyms 1.4.2 Translations 1.5 Noun 1.5.1 Synonyms 1.5.2 See also 1.5.3 Translations 2 Croatian 2.1 Noun 2.1.1 Declension

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[edit] Etymology

From Mediaeval Latin periodus.

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• IPA: /ˈpɪərɪəd/
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period (not comparable)

1. Appropriate for a given historical era.
   • 2004, Mark Singer, Somewhere in America, Houghton Mifflin, page 70

     As the guests arrived — there were about a hundred, a majority in period attire — I began to feel out of place in my beige summer suit, white shirt, and red necktie. Then I got over it. I certainly didn't suffer from Confederate-uniform envy.

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period

1. (chiefly North American) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.

   When I say "eat your dinner," it means "eat your dinner," period!

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• (and nothing else): full stop

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period (plural periods)

1. (chiefly North American) Punctuation mark ending a sentence or marking an abbreviation (“.”).
2. A length of time.

   There was a period of confusion following the announcement.

   You'll be on probation for a six-month period.

3. An epoch, era, time in history or in a person's life.

   Food rationing continued in the post-war period.

   This is one of the last paintings Picasso created during his Blue Period.

4. A specific length of time that an activity (such as a game or a school day) is conventionally divided into.

   Gretzky scored in the last minute of the second period.

   I have math class in second period.

5. The minimum interval during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.
6. Female menstruation.
7. (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.

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• (punctuation mark): full stop (UK, Australia)
• See also Wikisaurus:period

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• Wiktionary Appendix with entry about the symbol "."

Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) brackets ( ( ) ) ( [ ] ) ( { } ) ( 〈 〉 ) colon ( : )

comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … )

exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop/period ( . ) hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )

interrobang ( ‽ ) question mark ( ? ) quotation marks ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” )

semicolon ( ; ) slash/solidus ( / ) ( ⁄ ) space (   ) interpunct ( · )

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period m (plural periodi)

1. period (time)

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