Definitions For Period

noun

  • A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
  • The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
  • An amount of time
  • The end or completion of something
  • A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
  • (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
  • The interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
  • A length of time during which a series of events or an action takes place or is completed
  • A length of time that is very important in the history of the world, a nation, etc.
  • A time that is very important in the life of a person

Is Periods a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
10
Words with Friends
11

The word Period is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Period in a Sentence

  • We have had two power failures in a five-month period.
  • The period between Christmas and New Year's Eve is a very busy one for us.
  • We are studying our country's colonial period.

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