hours vs period

period vs hours

hours and period both are nouns.

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

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

hours: an indefinite period of time
period: an amount of time

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

hours (noun)	period (noun)
a period of time assigned for work	a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
an indefinite period of time	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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