decade vs period

period vs decade

decade and period both are nouns.

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

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

decade: a period of 10 years
period: an amount of time

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

decade (noun)	period (noun)
the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system	a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
a period of 10 years	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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