Period Time Extra Life Examples I Length Transition

• a long/an extended period
• a short/brief period
• a period of transition/uncertainty/expansion
• a period of two years/six months/four weeks

period

1. a particular length of time
• SEE ALSO cooling-off period
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/cooling-off-period
• a long/an extended period
• a short/brief period
• a period of transition/uncertainty/expansion
• a period of two years/six months/four weeks
• a two-year/six-month/four-week period
• All these changes happened over a period of time.
• A year-to-year lease has no fixed time period.
• The offer is available for a limited period only.
• This compares with a 4% increase for the same period last year.
• The project will run for a six-month trial period.
• The hall will be closed over a 2-year period.
• We know little of her life during that period.
• The aim is to reduce traffic at peak periods.
• Tomorrow will be cold with sunny periods.

Extra Examples

• Committee members will not be eligible for re-election within a period of two years.
• Eastern Europe entered a period of transition in the 1990s.
• Public spending was cut during his period of office.
• Sales have gone up in the last-five-year period.
• The balance must be paid within an agreed period of time.
• The film spans a period of 40 years of Castro's rule.
• The medication is prescribed for a fixed period of time.
• The most formative period of life is childhood.
• The period was marked by a succession of financial crises.
• The view is that the government's honeymoon period is over.
• There will be a reduced bus service over the Christmas period.
• Try breaking your period of study into 20-minute blocks.
• We lived in Caracas for a brief period.
• We visited five different cities within a two-day period.
• You can use the software free for a 30-day trial period.
• You have been paid for the full period of your employment with us.
• a critical period in the development of the project
• a happy period in her life
• a period of transition between communist rule and democratic government
• a period of transition from a totalitarian regime to democratic government
• after a long period of waiting
• during the intervening period
• the period between his resigning and finding a new job
• the period from 1 July to 31 December
• There are extra buses at peak periods.
• There was a long period of uncertainty before we knew the final decision.
2. a length of time in the life of a particular person or in the history of a particular country
• Which period of history would you most like to have lived in?
• This textbook covers the post-war period.
• The church dates from the Norman period.
• We are currently studying the early medieval period.
• Like Picasso, she too had a blue period.
• Most teenagers go through a period of rebelling.

Extra Examples

• The picture was painted by Picasso during his blue period.
• the late Victorian period
• the period covered by the book
• a dark period in the country's history
3. a length of time which is a division of an era. A period is divided into epochs.
• the Jurassic period
• Dinosaurs died out during the Cretaceous period.
4. any of the parts that a day is divided into at a school, college, etc. for study
• ‘What do you have next period?’ ‘French.’
• a free/study period (= for private study)

Extra Examples

• We've got French next period.
• I have two free periods on Tuesday afternoons.
5. the flow of blood each month from the body of a woman who is not pregnant
• COMPARE menstruation
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/menstruation
• period pains
• monthly periods
• When did you last have a period?

Extra Examples

• I was thirteen when I started my period.
• I have my period and don't feel too great.
• Missing a period is often one of the first signs that a woman is pregnant.
6. the mark ( . ) used at the end of a sentence and in some abbreviations, for example e.g.

Word Origin

• late Middle English (denoting the time during which something, especially a disease, runs its course): from Old French periode, via Latin from Greek periodos ‘orbit, recurrence, course’, from peri- ‘around’ + hodos ‘way, course’. The sense ‘portion of time’ dates from the early 17th cent.