Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun duration

3 senses of duration

Sense 1
duration, continuance -- (the period of time during which something continues)
       => time period, period of time, period -- (an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period")

Sense 2
duration, continuance -- (the property of enduring or continuing in time)
       => time -- (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)

Sense 3
duration, length -- (continuance in time; "the ceremony was of short duration"; "he complained about the length of time required")
       => temporal property -- (a property relating to time)