{
    "term": "period",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a particular length of time",
            "sensetop": "period of somethingfor a periodover a periodduring a period",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**a long/an extended period**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**a short/brief period**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a period of transition/uncertainty/expansion",
                    "contextForm": "period of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a period of two years/six months/four weeks"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a two-year/six-month/four-week period"
                },
                {
                    "text": "All these changes happened over **a period of time**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A year-to-year lease has no fixed **time period**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The offer is available for a limited period only.",
                    "contextForm": "for a period"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This compares with a 4% increase for the **same period** last year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The project will run for a six-month trial period."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The hall will be closed over a 2-year period.",
                    "contextForm": "over a period"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We know little of her life during that period.",
                    "contextForm": "during a period"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The aim is to reduce traffic at peak periods."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Tomorrow will be cold with sunny periods."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Committee members will not be eligible for re-election within a period of two years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Eastern Europe entered a period of transition in the 1990s."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Public spending was cut during his period of office."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sales have gone up in the last-five-year period."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The balance must be paid within an agreed period of time."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The film spans a period of 40 years of Castro's rule."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The medication is prescribed for a fixed period of time."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The most formative period of life is childhood."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The period was marked by a succession of financial crises."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The view is that the government's honeymoon period is over."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There will be a reduced bus service over the Christmas period."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Try breaking your period of study into 20-minute blocks."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We lived in Caracas for a brief period."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We visited five different cities within a two-day period."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You can use the software free for a 30-day trial period."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You have been paid for the full period of your employment with us."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a critical period in the development of the project"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a happy period in her life"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a period of transition from a totalitarian regime to democratic government"
                },
                {
                    "text": "after a long period of waiting"
                },
                {
                    "text": "during the intervening period"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the period between his resigning and finding a new job"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the period from 1 July to 31 December"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are extra buses at peak periods."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was a long period of uncertainty before we knew the final decision."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["extended", "lengthy", "long"],
                "verb + period": ["cover", "span", "begin"],
                "period + verb": ["begin", "commence", "elapse"],
                "period + noun": ["costume", "furniture"],
                "preposition": [
                    "after a period",
                    "during the period",
                    "throughout the period"
                ],
                "phrases": [
                    "the beginning of a period",
                    "the start of a period",
                    "the end of a period"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a length of time in the life of a particular person or in the history of a particular country",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Which **period of history** would you most like to have lived in?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This textbook covers the post-war period."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The church dates from the Norman period."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We are currently studying the early medieval period."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Like Picasso, she too had a blue period."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most teenagers go through a period of rebelling."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The picture was painted by Picasso during his blue period."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the late Victorian period"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the period covered by the book"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a dark period in the country's history"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["History"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["extended", "lengthy", "long"],
                "verb + period": ["cover", "span", "begin"],
                "period + verb": ["begin", "commence", "elapse"],
                "period + noun": ["costume", "furniture"],
                "preposition": [
                    "after a period",
                    "during the period",
                    "throughout the period"
                ],
                "phrases": [
                    "the beginning of a period",
                    "the start of a period",
                    "the end of a period"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a length of time which is a division of an era. A period is divided into epochs.",
            "labels": "(geology)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the Jurassic period"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Dinosaurs died out during the Cretaceous period."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["extended", "lengthy", "long"],
                "verb + period": ["cover", "span", "begin"],
                "period + verb": ["begin", "commence", "elapse"],
                "period + noun": ["costume", "furniture"],
                "preposition": [
                    "after a period",
                    "during the period",
                    "throughout the period"
                ],
                "phrases": [
                    "the beginning of a period",
                    "the start of a period",
                    "the end of a period"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "any of the parts that a day is divided into at a school, college, etc. for study",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘What do you have next period?’ ‘French.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **free/study period** *(= for private study)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We've got French next period."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have two free periods on Tuesday afternoons."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Education"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "the flow of blood each month from the body of a woman who is not pregnant",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "period pains"
                },
                {
                    "text": "monthly periods"
                },
                {
                    "text": "When did you last **have a period**?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was thirteen when I started my period."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have my period and don't feel too great."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Missing a period is often one of the first signs that a woman is pregnant."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["heavy", "light", "menstrual"],
                "verb + period": ["have", "start", "miss"],
                "period + verb": ["start", "stop", "last"],
                "period + noun": ["cramps", "pains"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "the mark ( . ) used at the end of a sentence and in some abbreviations, for example e.g.",
            "labels": "(North American English)British English",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Language"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpɪəriəd/",
                "audio": "pe/period/period__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpɪriəd/",
                "audio": "pe/period/period__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (denoting the time during which something, especially a disease, runs its course): from Old French periode, via Latin from Greek periodos ‘orbit, recurrence, course’, from peri- ‘around’ + hodos ‘way, course’. The sense ‘portion of time’ dates from the early 17th cent."
}