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Synonyms of period in English:

period


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noun

1‘he had long periods of depression’

SYNONYMS
time, spell, interval, stretch, term, span, phase, session, bout, run, space, duration, chapter, stage
while
British informal patch

2‘the post-war period’

SYNONYMS
era, age, epoch, time, days, years, aeon
generation, date

3‘a double maths period’

SYNONYMS
lesson, class, session

4‘women who suffer from painful periods’

SYNONYMS
menstruation, menstrual flow
informal the curse, monthlies, time of the month
technical menses
archaic time
rare flowers

5‘a comma instead of a period’

SYNONYMS
point, stop
British full stop, full point

6‘it's a hard job, period’

SYNONYMS
and that's that, and that is the end of the matter, finis
British full stop