millennium vs period

period vs millennium

millennium and period both are nouns.

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

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

millennium: a span of 1000 years
period: an amount of time

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

millennium (noun)	period (noun)
a span of 1000 years	a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
(New Testament) in the Book of Revelation it is foretold that those faithful to Jesus will reign with Jesus over the earth for a thousand years; the meaning of these words have been much debated; some denominations (e.g. Jehovah's Witnesses) expect it to be a thousand years of justice and peace and happiness	the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it)	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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