Hyphenation of periods

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word periods ? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

pe-ri-ods

Definitions of periods :

1.
An amount of time
A time period of 30 years Hastened the period of time of his recovery Picasso's blue period
2.
The interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
3.
(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
4.
A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
Ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods
5.
The end or completion of something
Death put a period to his endeavors A change soon put a period to my tranquility
6.
The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
The women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation A woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped--Hippocrates The semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females--Aristotle
7.
A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
In England they call a period a stop

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