time period
Stretch of history
A time period is a span or interval of time, often with defined boundaries: the Victorian time period, a time period of six months.
The phrase is somewhat redundant—period alone usually suffices—but remains common in everyday speech and writing when emphasizing duration or historical era.
- decadeTen-year span
- eraDistinct historical period
- Middle AgesEurope's feudal millennium
- epochDistinct historical period
- durationLength of existence
medieval · golden age · bygone era · olden days · timeline · Renaissance · chronology · millennium · interval · century · interregnum · Bronze Age · trimester · antiquity · Stone Age · Enlightenment · age · Cold War
- historical dramasBridgerton, Downton Abbey, Poldark, The Crown, Victoria
- historical fiction studiesworld building, character development, anachronisms, authenticity, historical romance
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- timesecond, minute, hour, day, seconds
- literary contextsetting, historical background, cultural milieu, political climate, genre conventions
- settingssetting, default, settings, template, configure
time periodinstant
Briefest unit of time
moment · point in time · split second · flash · nanosecond
time periodeternity
Boundless temporal existence
infinity · timelessness · forever · perpetuity · atemporality
time, period, times, timer, timely, timed, periodic, timing, temporal