Clues for the word "PERIOD"
We've had 62 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 89 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on November 06, 2025.
Definition of period
- n. - A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet.
- n. - A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic.
- n. - One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.
- n. - The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion.
- n. - A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence.
- n. - The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word.
- n. - One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals.
- n. - The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission.
- n. - A complete musical sentence.
- v. t. - To put an end to.
- v. i. - To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc.
Referring Clues
- "End of story!"
- Certain 36-Across
- "... and that's final!"
- Sentence ender
- Stop sign?
- Class time
- Era
- Game division
- Age
- It's at the end of the line
- Sentence-ending mark
- Class day division
- ". . . and that's final!"
- Sentence ending
- Abbreviation punctuation
- Meaningful interval
- Class length
- Sentence stopper
- Stop
- A dot at the end of a sentence
- Quarter or half
- One of three in hockey
- Dot
- Sentence-ending dot
- " ... and that's final"
- Time in a classroom
- Question ______
- That's it
- Length of time
- Interval
- It may end a sentence
- Time for a full stop
- Term
- Portion of time
- Is this piece a timepiece?
- Amount of time - US full stop
- Spell
- Age span
- Exercises with ball in free time
- See 13
- Era, epoch
- In history, nothing to take abnormal pride about
- Interval of time
- .
- Punctuation that Brits call a full stop
- School day division
- Time possibly ripe to do wrong
- Punctuation spoken for emphasis
- "___. End of Sentence." (2018 documentary)
- Dot after a sentence
- C.S. Lewis character?
- End-of-sentence dot
- End of the line?
- ___ tracking app
- It can finish whatever you write
- ___ underwear (absorbent bottoms)
- Discussion-ending word
- The point of writing?
- Menstrual cycle part
- Is this piece a timepiece?
- Punctuation mark
- Stopping point
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - November 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 19, 2025
- New York Times - July 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 28, 2025
- LA Times - December 21, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 17, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - November 06, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 02, 2024
- USA Today - October 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 15, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 27, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 10, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 05, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 29, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - May 08, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 01, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - November 06, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 04, 2023
- USA Today - May 03, 2023
- USA Today - April 11, 2023
- New York Times - March 21, 2023
- Family Time - January 02, 2023
- USA Today - November 06, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - November 06, 2022
- New York Times - December 18, 2021
- And in 59 more crossword puzzles...