[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/period/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [P](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/p/) / period # period noun (a period, periods); adjective (period — of a past age, e.g. period costume) «period» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. A period is a length of time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/#m1) 2. At school, a period is one lesson in the timetable. [tree →](https://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://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://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/#m6) ### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/#x1) - Over a period of two weeks, the seed grew ten centimetres. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/#x2) - Put a period at the end of the sentence. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/#x3) - We are studying the Roman period. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/#x4) - Dinosaurs lived in a period called the Mesozoic. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/#x5) - Periods are a normal part of growing up for girls. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/#x6) - Ice hockey has three periods. [tree →](https://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://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 Jewish tradition 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 - Dr. Zunz, the Nestor of the Jewish Rabbis in Europe, maintains that we have to look for the genesis of the book "Yezirah" in the Geonic period, (700-1000), and that it was consequently composed in a post-talmudical time. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/period/#x1) - f"There was first ot all a period when Nothing existed . . . (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/period/#x2) - Many writers maintain that only at a later period the principle of position and the zero was discovered. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/period/#x3) ### Note Countable. "Period" for "full stop" is mainly American. Adjective: periodic, periodical. In maths, "per period" means for each length of time. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «period» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/period/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«period» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/period.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «period» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/period/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«period» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/period.html) on Mova free.