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DictionaryRoot: hodos
Greek

hodos

way, road, or journey

Forms

  • hodos
  • hod- — Used before another ending.
  • -od- — The initial h was lost in some borrowed compounds.

Origin

An old Greek word whose deeper origin is uncertain.

Note

A route can be a physical road or a method of proceeding.

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noun

period

PEER-ee-uhd/ˈpɪriəd/

A distinct interval or division of time.

The hourglass measures a short period of time.

An hourglass beside a short sun-to-moon arc depicts a bounded span of time.
Etymology
periGreekaround
+odGreekway, road, or journey

The pieces express “a going around,” originally a circuit or cycle. A repeated cycle of events came to mean the interval it occupied, leading to the broader sense of a length of time.

In context

Messiah 203019:30
it is not because it's a literal 24-hour period but a period of one thousand years
Messiah 2030 ~ The Prophetic Messianic Timeline - Part 1 of 3 (Part 4 in production)

More examples

  • The museum explores a period of rapid industrial growth.
  • We have math during the first period.
  • Her period usually lasts about five days.

Forms

period · periods

periodic adjective — Occurring repeatedly at fairly regular intervals.

Similar words

interval
Often emphasizes the time between two events or activities.
span
Emphasizes how long something lasts, rather than its divisions.
era
Usually names a long stretch marked by distinctive events.