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 Serbo-Croatian 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Noun 2.2.1 Declension

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[edit] Etymology

From Middle English periode from Middle French periode from Mediaeval Latin periodus from Latin periodus from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos) "circuit, period of time, path around" from περί- (peri-) "around" + ὁδός (hodós) "way". Displaced native Middle English tide "interval, period, season" (from Old English tīd "time, period, season"), Middle English elde "age, period" (from Old English eldo, ieldo "age, period of time").

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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.

   When she is on her period she can be more disagreeable than usual

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

[edit] See also

• 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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[edit] Serbo-Croatian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /perǐod/
• Hyphenation: pe‧ri‧od

[edit] Noun

perìod m. (Cyrillic spelling перѝод)

1. period (of time)

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