Meanings
Noun
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1. period; time
Noun
2. opportunity; chance; occasion
Noun
Suffix
Geolegy
3. age
Suffix
4. term (e.g. in office)
5. session (e.g. of parliament)
6. stage (e.g. of a disease)
7. season (e.g. of a TV series)
Alt. forms
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (167 in total)
fishing season
session (of a legislature)
period (of life) when one is enjoying more romantic attention than usual
Examples (3 in total)
The economy has entered a recession.
The plays of Shakespeare fall into four periods.
This is a work from Turner's mature period.