WordNet is a semantic lexicon for the English language. It was created and is being maintained at the Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George A. Miller.
The purpose is twofold: to produce a combination of dictionary and thesaurus that is more intuitively usable, and to support automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence applications.
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catamenia, flow, full point, full stop, geological period, historical period, historic period, menses, menstruation, menstruum, period, period of time, point, stop, time period,
1. NOUN. (period)
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
"in England they call a period a stop"
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2. NOUN. (period)
the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
"the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"
"a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates
"the semen begins to
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3. NOUN. (period)
an amount of time
"a time period of 3 years"
"hastened the period of time of his recovery"
"Picasso''s blue period"
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trial period, test period, time frame, hours, downtime, uptime, work time, time off, hospitalization, travel time, time, elapsed time, duration, continuance, week, calendar week, field day, life, lifetime, lifespan, life, life, millennium, bimillennium, bimillenary, occupation, past, shelf life, puerperium, lactation, time of life, calendar day, civil day, festival, day, daytime, daylight, morning, morn, morning time, forenoon, night, nighttime, dark, night, night, night, eve, evening, week, hebdomad, fortnight, two weeks, weekend, Indian summer, Saint Martin's summer, year, school, schooltime, school day, year, twelvemonth, yr, year, semester, bimester, Olympiad, lustrum, decade, decennary, decennium, century, half-century, quarter-century, quarter, phase of the moon, day, calendar month, month, mid-January, mid-February, mid-March, mid-April, mid-May, mid-June, mid-July, mid-August, mid-September, mid-October, mid-November, mid-December, time limit, term, trimester, hour, silly season, Golden Age, silver age, bronze age, Bronze Age, iron age, Iron Age, Stone Age, Eolithic Age, Eolithic, Paleolithic Age, Paleolithic, Palaeolithic, Lower Paleolithic, Middle Paleolithic, Upper Paleolithic, Mesolithic Age, Mesolithic, Epipaleolithic, Neolithic Age, Neolithic, New Stone Age, great year, Platonic year, regulation time, overtime, extra time, season, time of year, dog days, canicule, canicular days, midwinter, season, season, long time, age, years, long run, long haul, drought, era, epoch, generation, prehistory, prehistoric culture, reign, run, youth, early days, dawn, evening, time, sleep, nap, lease, term of a contract, half life, half-life, tide, lunar time period, phase, stage, multistage, watch, peacetime, wartime, enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty, duty tour, tour, honeymoon, indiction, Depression, the Depression, the Great Depression, prohibition, prohibition era, incubation period, rainy day, novitiate, noviciate, flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush, running time, period, historic period, historical period, clotting time, air alert, question time, real time, real time, study hall, usance, window,
4. NOUN. (period)
the end or completion of something
"death put a period to his endeavors"
"a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
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5. NOUN. (period)
a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
"ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
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Quaternary, Quaternary period, Age of Man, Tertiary, Tertiary period, Cretaceous, Cretaceous period, Jurassic, Jurassic period, Triassic, Triassic period, Permian, Permian period, Carboniferous, Carboniferous period, Pennsylvanian, Pennsylvanian period, Upper Carboniferous, Upper Carboniferous period, Mississippian, Missippian period, Lower Carboniferous, Lower Carboniferous period, Devonian, Devonian period, Age of Fishes, Silurian, Silurian period, Ordovician, Ordovician period, Cambrian, Cambrian period, ice age, glacial period, glacial epoch,
