Canicular
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Of or pertaining to the dog days Of or pertaining to the ancient Egyptian cycle of 1460 years, or the year from one rising of Sirius to the next
Period
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Appropriate for a given historical era.
Part of speech: interjection
Definition: And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Punctuation mark “” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).A length of time.An epoch, era, time in history or in a person's life.A specific length of time that an activity (such as a game or a school day) is conventionally divided into.The minimum interval during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.Female menstruation.A row in the periodic table of the elements.A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm
Example sentence: Americans are guaranteed the constitutional right to legal abortion in Roe v. Wade, and it's past time for Republicans to stop using the issue as a political football. In fact, it's past time for Republican politicians to stop interfering in women's personal lives, period.