noun
Meaning 1
Synonym of time period.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: time period
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
period of time
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noun
Meaning 2
an amount of time
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a time period of 30 years
- hastened the period of time of his recovery
- Picasso's blue period
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: time period, period
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fundamental quantity, fundamental measure
Narrower terms: trial period, test period, time frame, hours, downtime, uptime, work time, time off, bout, hospitalization, travel time, times, time, elapsed time, duration, continuance, week, calendar week, midweek, field day, life, lifetime, life-time, lifespan, millennium, millenary, bimillennium, bimillenary, occupation, past, shelf life, puerperium, lactation, time of life, calendar day, civil day, festival, day, daytime, daylight, morning, morn, morning time, forenoon, night, nighttime, dark, eve, evening, hebdomad, fortnight, two weeks, weekend, Indian summer, Saint Martin's summer, year, school, schooltime, school day, twelvemonth, yr, semester, bimester, Olympiad, lustrum, decade, decennary, decennium, century, quadrennium, quinquennium, half-century, quarter-century, quarter, phase of the moon, calendar month, month, mid-January, mid-February, mid-March, mid-April, mid-May, mid-June, mid-July, mid-August, mid-September, mid-October, mid-November, mid-December, time limit, term, trimester, hour, silly season, Golden Age, silver age, bronze age, iron age, great year, Platonic year, regulation time, overtime, extra time, season, time of year, dog days, canicule, canicular days, midwinter, long time, age, years, long run, long haul, drought, drouth, era, epoch, generation, prehistory, prehistoric culture, reign, run, youth, early days, dawn, sleep, nap, lease, term of a contract, half life, half-life, tide, lunar time period, phase, stage, multistage, watch, peacetime, wartime, enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty, duty tour, tour, honeymoon, indiction, prohibition, prohibition era, incubation period, rainy day, novitiate, noviciate, flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush, running time, clotting time, air alert, question time, real time, study hall, usance, window, Stone Age, Eolithic Age, Eolithic, Paleolithic Age, Paleolithic, Palaeolithic, Lower Paleolithic, Middle Paleolithic, Upper Paleolithic, Mesolithic Age, Mesolithic, Epipaleolithic, Neolithic Age, Neolithic, New Stone Age, Great Schism
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