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age vs period

period vs age

age and period both are nouns.

age is a verb but period is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
age Yes No Yes No
period Yes No No No
As nouns, period is a hypernym of age; that is, period is a word with a broader meaning than age:
  • age: a prolonged period of time
  • period: an amount of time
Other hypernyms of age include period of time, time period.
age (noun) period (noun)
how long something has existed a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
a late time of life an amount of time
an era of history having some distinctive feature the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
a prolonged period of time 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
age (verb) period (verb)
grow old or older
begin to seem older; get older
make older
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