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# period

«period» in Mova's school dictionary: **a length of time** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a period, periods); adjective (period — of a past age, e.g. period costume)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A period is a length of time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/#m1)

2) At school, a period is one lesson in the timetable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/#m2)

3) In American English, a period is the dot (.) at the end of a sentence; British English calls it a full stop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/#m3)

4) A period is the time in history, like the Victorian period. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/#m4)

5) A period is the time each month when a woman or girl bleeds from her womb (menstruation). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/#m5)

6) In science, a period is a row in the periodic table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, a period is a length of time measured in seconds, minutes or hours, and in problems "over a period of three hours" tells you the time. In history, periods are ages like the Stone Age or Tudor period. In health lessons, girls learn that periods are a normal part of growing up. In sport, matches like ice hockey are divided into periods.

### examples

- Maths is in the first period. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/#x1)
- Over a period of two weeks, the seed grew ten centimetres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/#x2)
- Put a period at the end of the sentence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/#x3)
- We are studying the Roman period. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/#x4)
- Dinosaurs lived in a period called the Mesozoic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/#x5)
- Periods are a normal part of growing up for girls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/#x6)
- Ice hockey has three periods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/#x7)
- Then came a dreadful period, when news from the king ceased entirely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/#x8)

### note

Countable. "Period" for "full stop" is mainly American. Adjective: periodic, periodical. In maths, "per period" means for each length of time.

### In the corpora

- [The Renaissance was a period of new learning and art in Europe from around 1400 to 1600.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/12/)
- ["That time of the month" means a woman's monthly period.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/7-wind-sick-and-runs/20/)
- ["Aunt Flo" is a joking American way to talk about a period; there is no aunt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/7-wind-sick-and-runs/21/)
- ["Furloughed" means sent home from work for a period, often unpaid.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/19/)
- [In the EU5 period there were no time zones at all; each place kept its own sun time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «period» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.