generation vs period

period vs generation

generation and period both are nouns.

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

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

generation: the normal time between successive generations
period: an amount of time

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

generation (noun)	period (noun)
the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production	a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
the production of heat or electricity	the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
a coming into being	an amount of time
group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent	the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age	a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
the normal time between successive generations	the end or completion of something
a stage of technological development or innovation	(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games

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