period of time

1. 1.

   an amount of time

   “a time period of 30 years”

   “hastened the period of time of his recovery”

   “Picasso's blue period”

   Synonymstime periodperiod

   Broaderfundamental quantity

   Narrowertrial periodtime framegracehoursdowntimeuptimework timetime offbouthospitalization

Questions about period of time

What does period of time mean?

period of time means "an amount of time".

What is another word for period of time?

Close synonyms include time period, period. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is period of time a common word?

period of time 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.