period
nounHow many syllables in period?
There are 3 syllables in the word period.How to pronounce period:
Definition of period:
- period (noun):
- a portion of time
- an amount of time.
- the completion of a cycle, a series of events, or a single action conclusion
Synonyms for period:
age
air alert
bimester
bimillenary
bimillennium
bloom
blossom
bout
bronze age
calendar day
calendar month
calendar week
canicular days
canicule
catamenia
century
civil day
clotting time
continuance
dark
dawn
day
daylight
daytime
decade
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Antonyms for period:
baseline
beginning
birth
commencement
continuation
continuity
dawn
day one
inauguration
inception
initiation
introduction
nascence
nascency
onset
opening
origin
preface
source
start
starting point
success
Here are some other common 3-syllable words.
- volcano
- stallion
- Alayna
- restaurant
- commotion
- relevant
- invited
- hiatus
- grandmother's
- emphasis
- wonderful
- grandmother
- division
- understand
- together
- consonant
- wordlessly
- biogas
- detected
- bravery
- therapist's
- arrival
- supposing
- sacheted
- forgiveness
- cigarette
- audience
- therapist
- curious
- glove leather
- meniscus
- champion
- Helios
- religion
- probable
- perfidy
- holy day
- Aracely
- acrobat
- helplessness
- flexible
- upcoming
- ingenue
- inclusive
- compiler
- calculate
- galaxy
- Eostre
- survival
- speciation
- … more
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