period of time

Noun

Meaning

an amount of time

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

period time period time times while day term length epoch era phase moment duration interval span
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Hypernyms

fundamental quantity fundamental measure

Hyponyms

eve olympiad prime grace millennium dawn

Examples

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. George Carlin

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive. Philip Roth

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time. Sydney J. Harris

A culture truly changes only when a new way of operating has been shown to succeed over some minimum period of time. John Kotter

I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat. Lenny Kravitz

Close letter words and terms

period of ten years period of the mesozoic era period of the year period of two weeks period of unusual harmony period of validity