PERIOD

n. 1 interval, time, term, span, duration, spell, space, stretch; while; Colloq chiefly Brit patch During the period of his absence, his children had grown up I waited a short period, then phoned again. We went through a bad period last year. 2 era, days, epoch, aeon, age, years During the Old English period, very little was written down 3 full stop Place periods at the ends of sentences