n.
1.an amount of time
2.one of three periods of play in hockey games
3.a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time
4.the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
5.the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
6.a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
7.a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
8.the end or completion of something
Idiom of the Day
set (someone or something) free
to release someone or something
The conservation officers went to the mountains and set the bear free.