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English

rank|fresh|noble|appearance|713|period|William|remain|covered

Etymology
From ML. periodus.

Pronunciation
IPA|/�pɪ�rɪ�d/
audio|en-us-period.ogg|Audio (US)

Adjective
en-adj|-

1. appropriate|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.

Interjection
period

1. context|now mostly|North America and nothing else, and nothing less; used for emphasis

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

Translations
Dutch: punt uit
French: point !, point final !, un point c'est tout !
Hungarian: pont!
Polish: i kropka!
Russian: и �о�ка! (i tó�ka)

Noun
en-noun

1. context|now mostly|North America 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.

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. 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.
2. Female menstruation. See also have a period
3. chemistry A row in the periodic table of the elements.

Synonyms
full stop (UK, Australia) (1)

Translations
rfc| Punctuation marks in the bottom of the page. There should be a side box, and the period may need to be joined with full stop.
trans-top|punctation mark

Slovak: t-|sk|bodka|f
Slovene: t+|sl|pika|f
Swedish: t+|sv|punkt|n
Tagalog: tuldok
trans-bottom

trans-top|epoch
Albanian: periudhë
Arabic: ARchar|�رح�ة ز���ة (marħála zamníyya) f
Croatian: t+|hr|period|m, t+|hr|doba|n, t-|hr|razdoblje|n
Czech: t+|cs|období
Dutch: t+|nl|periode|f
Finnish: t+|fi|kausi, t+|fi|jakso
French: t+|fr|période|f
Greek: ε�ο�ή (epoçí) f, �ε�ίοδο� (períoðos) f
Hungarian: t+|hu|id�szak, t-|hu|periódus
trans-mid
Kurdish: KUchar|د���
Norwegian: t+|no|periode, t-|no|æra
Polish: t+|pl|okres|m
Portuguese: t+|pt|período|m
Russian: t+|ru|пе�иод|m|trperíod|scCyrl
Slovak: perióda
Slovene: doba f, obdobje n
Swedish: t+|sv|period|c
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trans-top|something that repeats regularly
Albanian: periodike
Arabic: ARchar|حدث �ت�رر (ħádaθ mutakárrir)
Croatian: t+|hr|period|m
Czech: t-|cs|perioda
Dutch: t+|nl|periode|f
French: t+|fr|période|f
Greek: �ε�ίοδο� (períoðos) f
Hungarian: t-|hu|periódus
trans-mid
Norwegian: t+|no|periode|m
Portuguese: t+|pt|período|m
Slovak: perióda
trans-bottom

menstruation
See also menstruation

Albanian: zakone
Arabic: ARchar|ح�ض (ħaid) m, ARchar|عادة ش�ر�ة (��da šahríyya) f
Croatian: t-|hr|menstruacija|f
Finnish: kuukautiset p
French: t+|fr|cycle|m
Italian: t+|it|mestruazioni|f
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Greek: �ε�ίοδο� (períoðos) f
Spanish: t-|es|achaque|m

Punctuation

Category:Time

Croatian

Noun
hr-noun|g=m|periodi

1. period (time)

Declension
hr-decl-noun
|period|periodi
|perioda|perioda
|periodu|periodima
|period|periode
|periode|periodi
|periodu|periodima
|periodom|periodima

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