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lustrum vs period

period vs lustrum

lustrum and period both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
lustrum Yes No No No
period Yes No No No
As nouns, period is a hypernym of lustrum; that is, period is a word with a broader meaning than lustrum:
  • lustrum: a period lasting five years
  • period: an amount of time
Other hypernyms of lustrum include period of time, time period.
lustrum (noun) period (noun)
a ceremonial purification of the Roman population every five years following the census a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
a period lasting five years 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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