1 any length of time: a period of three days; a period of waiting.
az: müddət
ru: промежуток времени; период
2 a stage in the Earth's development, an artist's development, in history etc : the Pleistocene period; the modern period.
az: dövr
ru: эпоха
3 the punctuation mark (.), put at the end of a sentence; a full stop.
az: nöqtə
ru: точка
♦ adjective
(of furniture, costumes etc) of or from the same or appropriate time in history; antique or very old: period costumes; His house is full of period furniture (=antique furniture).
az: tarixi
ru: исторический; старинный