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- noun an amount of time
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- Bronze Age
- Eolithic
- Great Schism
- Indian summer
- Iron Age
- Life
- Mesolithic
- Neolithic
- New Stone Age
- Olympiad
- Paleolithic
- Saint Martin's summer
- Stone Age
- Time
- age
- air alert
- bimester
- bimillenary
- bimillennium
- bloom
- blossom
- bout
- calendar day
- calendar month
- calendar week
- canicular days
- canicule
- century
- civil day
- clotting time
- continuance
- dark
- dawn
- day
- daylight
- daytime
- decade
- decennary
- decennium
- dog days
- downtime
- drought
- drouth
- duration
- duty tour
- early days
- efflorescence
- elapsed time
- enlistment
- eolithic age
- epipaleolithic
- epoch
- era
- eve
- evening
- extra time
- festival
- field day
- flower
- flush
- forenoon
- fortnight
- generation
- golden age
- great year
- half-century
- half-life
- hebdomad
- heyday
- hitch
- honeymoon
- hospitalization
- hour
- hours
- incubation period
- indiction
- lactation
- lease
- lifespan
- lifetime
- long haul
- long time
- long-run
- lower paleolithic
- lunar time period
- lustrum
- mesolithic age
- mid-October
- mid-april
- mid-august
- mid-december
- mid-february
- mid-january
- mid-july
- mid-june
- mid-march
- mid-may
- mid-november
- mid-september
- middle paleolithic
- midweek
- midwinter
- millenary
- millennium
- month
- morn
- morning
- morning time
- multistage
- nap
- neolithic age
- night
- nighttime
- noviciate
- novitiate
- occupation
- overtime
- palaeolithic
- paleolithic age
- past
- peacetime
- peak
- phase
- phase of the moon
- platonic year
- prehistoric culture
- prehistory
- prime
- prohibition
- prohibition era
- puerperium
- quadrennium
- quarter
- quarter-century
- question time
- quinquennium
- rainy day
- real time
- regulation time
- reign
- run
- running time
- school
- school day
- schooltime
- season
- semester
- shelf life
- silly season
- silver age
- sleep
- stage
- study hall
- term
- term of a contract
- term of enlistment
- test period
- tide
- time frame
- time limit
- time of life
- time of year
- time off
- times
- tour
- tour of duty
- travel time
- trial period
- trimester
- twelvemonth
- two weeks
- upper paleolithic
- uptime
- usance
- wartime
- watch
- week
- week-end
- window
- work time
- year
- years
- youth
- yr
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