first period

1. 1.

   the first division into which the play of a game is divided

   Broaderpart

   Part ofplaying period

Questions about first period

What does first period mean?

first period means "the first division into which the play of a game is divided".

Is first period a common word?

first period is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.