glacial period vs period

period vs glacial period

glacial period and period both are nouns.

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

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

glacial period: any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface
period: a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed

Other hypernyms of glacial period include geological period.

glacial period (noun)	period (noun)
any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface	a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
	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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