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Olympiad vs period

period vs Olympiad

Olympiad and period both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
Olympiad Yes No No No
period Yes No No No
As nouns, period is a hypernym of Olympiad; that is, period is a word with a broader meaning than Olympiad:
  • Olympiad: one of the four-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC
  • period: an amount of time
Other hypernyms of Olympiad include period of time, time period.
Olympiad (noun) period (noun)
the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
one of the four-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
an amount of time
the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
the end or completion of something
(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
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