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period vs bout

bout vs period

period and bout both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
period Yes No No No
bout Yes No No No
As nouns, bout is a hyponym of period; that is, bout is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than period:
  • period: an amount of time
  • bout: a period of illness
Other hyponyms of period include test period, trial period, time frame, grace, grace period, hours, downtime, uptime, work time, time off, hospitalization, travel time, times, time, elapsed time, continuance, duration, calendar week, week, midweek, field day, life-time, life, lifespan, lifetime, life, life, millenary, millennium, bimillenary, bimillennium, occupation, past, shelf life, puerperium, lactation, time of life, calendar day, civil day, festival, day, daylight, daytime, forenoon, morn, morning, morning time, dark, night, nighttime, night, night, night, eve, evening, hebdomad, week, fortnight, two weeks, weekend, Indian summer, Saint Martin's summer, year, school, school day, schooltime, twelvemonth, year, yr, year, semester, bimester, Olympiad, lustrum, decade, decennary, decennium, century, quadrennium, quinquennium, half-century, quarter-century, quarter, phase of the moon, day, calendar month, month, mid-January, mid-February, mid-March, mid-April, mid-May, mid-June, mid-July, mid-August, mid-September, mid-October, mid-November, mid-December, time limit, term, trimester, hour, silly season, Golden Age, silver age, bronze age, iron age, great year, Platonic year, regulation time, extra time, overtime, season, time of year, canicular days, canicule, dog days, midwinter, season, season, age, long time, years, long haul, long run, drought, drouth, epoch, era, generation, prehistoric culture, prehistory, reign, run, early days, youth, dawn, evening, time, nap, sleep, lease, term of a contract, half-life, half life, lunar time period, tide, phase, stage, multistage, watch, peacetime, wartime, duty tour, enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour, tour of duty, honeymoon, indiction, prohibition, prohibition era, incubation period, rainy day, noviciate, novitiate, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime, running time, clotting time, air alert, question time, real time, real time, study hall, usance, window, mornight.
period (noun) bout (noun)
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers)
an amount of time (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon a period of illness
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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