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age vs literary period

literary period vs age

age and literary period both are nouns.

age is a verb but literary period is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
age Yes No Yes No
literary period Yes No No No
As nouns, literary period is a hyponym of age; that is, literary period is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than age:
  • age: an era of history having some distinctive feature
  • literary period: A time and place characterized by an assemblage of interrelated cultural, societal, ideological, technological, historic, and other trends in which related groups of authors wrote.
Other hyponyms of age include antiquity, golden age, Jazz Age, reign, turn of the century.
age (noun) literary period (noun)
how long something has existed A time and place characterized by an assemblage of interrelated cultural, societal, ideological, technological, historic, and other trends in which related groups of authors wrote.
a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises
a late time of life
an era of history having some distinctive feature
a prolonged period of time
age (verb) literary period (verb)
grow old or older
begin to seem older; get older
make older
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