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{ "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." }