period – English noun declension

English noun forms of period

Noun: period
Singularperiod
Pluralperiods

Sample Sentences

  • There was a period of confusion following the announcement.
  • You'll be on probation for a six-month period.
  • Philip Miles, defending, said: "This was a single instance, there was no allegation of continuing behaviour over a long period of time." [2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian:]
  • Food rationing continued in the post-war period.
  • With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • Sung Yung-hsi of Ch’u-hsiung was a government student during the Chia-ch’ing period. [1962, Chung-li Chang, The Income of the Chinese Gentry, Seattle: University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 235:]
  • ‘You know, a period? The black spot at the end of a sentence — what do you call them over there?’ [2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 299:]
  • My sufferings, physical and mental, are more than I can bear, and when such small arrangements as I have to make for your future well-being are completed it is my intention to put a period to them. [1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:]
  • When she is on her period, she prefers not to go swimming.
  • This is one of the last paintings Picasso created during his Blue Period.
  • I have math class in second period.
  • Gretzky scored in the last minute of the second period.
  • They won in the first overtime period.
  • As thus all gazed on hir, so she glaunced hir lookes on all, surueying them as curiously, as they noted hir exactly, but at last she set downe her period on the face of Alexis […] [1590, Robert Greene, “The Shepheards Tale”, in Greenes Mourning Garment, London: Thomas Newman, page 17:]
  • And if my death might make this island happy,
  • And prove the period of their tyranny,
  • I would expend it with all willingness: [1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:]
  • Why now let me die, for I haue liu'd long enough : This is the period of my ambition : O this bleſſed houre. [c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 58, column 1:]
  • All comes to one period, whether man make an end of himſelfe, or whether he endure-it[…]. [1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 203:]
  • When Loue thus in his Center ends,
  • Desire and Hope, his inward friends
  • Are shaken off: while Doubt and Griefe,
  • The weakest giuers of reliefe,
  • Stand in his councell as the chiefe:
  • And now he to his period brought,
  • From Loue becomes some other thought. [1629, John Beaumont, “A Description of Love”, in Bosworth-field with a Taste of the Variety of Other Poems, London: Henry Seile, page 100:]
  • Set up an hour-glasse; hee’l go on untill
  • The last sand make his Period. [1651, William Cartwright, The Ordinary, London: Humphrey Moseley, act III, scene 5, page 51:]
  • […]and yet this is but the ἀρχή ὠδίνων, the Beginning of those evils which shall never End till eternity hath a period[…] [a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, “Advent Sunday Dooms-Day Book: Or, Christ’s Advent to Judgement”, in Ἐνιαυτος: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays Of the Year, London: R. Norton, published 1673, page 8:]
  • So ſpake th’ Archangel Michael, then paus’d, / As at the Worlds great period ; and our Sire / Replete with joy and wonder thus repli’d. [1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 1537–1539:]
  • Periods are beautiful when they are not too long. [1641, Ben Jonson, Timber:]
  • that such iron moulds as these shall have autority to knaw out the choicest periods of exquisitest books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that haples race of men, whose misfortune it is to have understanding. [1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:]
  • In declamatory periods Dr Fordyce spins out Rousseau's eloquence […] [1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:]
  • A very superior gentleman, Mr. Kenge. Truly eloquent indeed. Some of his periods quite majestic! [1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:]
  • He writhed for twenty minutes under the flowery and eulogistic periods of the president, and rose himself in the state of confused indignation which the Briton feels when he is publicly approved. [1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:]
  • The Death of Patroclus was the most eminent Period; and consequently the most proper Time for such Games. [1720, Alexander Pope, translating Homer, Iliad, Book IV (note 125)]
  • These fossils are from the Jurassic period.
  • Fossils are particularly well described from the Carboniferous, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and have been found in the USA, England, Russia, Lebanon and Germany. Sites such as Lyme Regis in Dorset have particularly yielded number of Jurassic “squid” ink sacs and nodules (Doguzhaeva et al. 2004). [2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian:]
  • Polyclonal antibodies were prepared against the period gene product, which influences biological rhythms in D. melanogaster, by using small synthetic peptides from the per sequence as immunogens. [1988 April 1, “Antibodies to the period gene product of drosophila reveal diverse tissue distribution and rhythmic changes in the visual system”, in Neuron, volume 1, number 2, page 141:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
3. Ancient Greek περῐ́ (perĭ́)
4. Proto-Indo-European *sed-der.
5. Proto-Indo-European *sodós?
6. Proto-Hellenic *hodós
7. Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós)
8. Ancient Greek περῐ́οδος (perĭ́odos)lbor.
9. Medieval Latin periodusbor.
10. Middle French periodebor.
11. Middle English periode
12. English period
13. From Middle English periode, from Middle French periode, from Medieval Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos, “circuit, orbit, a recurring interval of time, path around”), from περι- (peri-, “around”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”). Displaced native Middle English tide (“interval, period, season”), from Old English tīd (“time, period, season”), as well as Middle English elde (“age, period”), from Old English ieldu (“age, period of time”). See: Middle English Nouns 'periode', Ancient Greek Nouns 'περίοδος', Middle English Nouns 'tide', Middle English Nouns 'elde', Old English Nouns 'ieldu'.

Verbs referencing "period"

Swedish Nouns period, Finnish Nouns periodi.