bout vs period

bout and period both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bout	Yes	No	No	No
period	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, period is a hypernym of bout; that is, period is a word with a broader meaning than bout:

bout: a period of illness
period: an amount of time

Other hypernyms of bout include period of time, time period.

bout (noun)	period (noun)
an occasion for excessive eating or drinking	a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers)	the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
(sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive	an amount of time
a period of illness	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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