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novitiate vs period

period vs novitiate

novitiate and period both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
novitiate Yes No No No
period Yes No No No
As nouns, period is a hypernym of novitiate; that is, period is a word with a broader meaning than novitiate:
  • novitiate: the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order)
  • period: an amount of time
Other hypernyms of novitiate include period of time, time period.
novitiate (noun) period (noun)
someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order) 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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