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era vs period

period vs era

era and period both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
era Yes No No No
period Yes No No No
As nouns, period is a hypernym of era; that is, period is a word with a broader meaning than era:
  • era: a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
  • period: an amount of time
Other hypernyms of era include period of time, time period.
era (noun) period (noun)
a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods 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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