period - Meaning in Tamil

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period - Meaning in Tamil

period Word Forms & Inflections

Definitions and Meaning of period in English

period noun

1. a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

   Synonyms

   full point, full stop, point, point, stop

   நிறுத்துப் புள்ளி, முற்றுப்புள்ளி

   Example

   • "in England they call a period a stop"
2. the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause

   Synonyms

   catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, menstruum

   மாதவிடாய், ...Subscribe

   Examples

   • "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"
   • "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"
   • "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"
3. an amount of time

   Synonyms

   period of time, time period

   Examples

   • "a time period of 30 years"
   • "hastened the period of time of his recovery"
   • "Picasso's blue period"
4. the end or completion of something

   Examples

   • "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
   • "death put a period to his endeavors"
5. a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed

   Synonyms

   geological period

   Example

   • "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
6. (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
7. the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon

Synonyms of period

• full point, full stop, point, stop
• catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, menstruum
• period of time, time period
• geological period

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