festival vs period

period vs festival

festival and period both are nouns.

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

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

festival: a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration
period: an amount of time

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

festival (noun)	period (noun)
an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place)	a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration	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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