month vs period

period vs month

month and period both are nouns.

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

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

month: one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year
period: an amount of time

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

month (noun)	period (noun)
a time unit of approximately 30 days	a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year	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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