eve vs period

eve and period both are nouns.

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

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

eve: the period immediately before something
period: an amount of time

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

eve (noun)	period (noun)
the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)	a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
the day before	the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
the period immediately before something	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

Difference between eve and period

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