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period vs millennium

millennium vs period

period and millennium both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
period Yes No No No
millennium Yes No No No
As nouns, millennium is a hyponym of period; that is, millennium is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than period:
  • period: an amount of time
  • millennium: a span of 1000 years
Other hyponyms of period include test period, trial period, time frame, grace, grace period, hours, downtime, uptime, work time, time off, bout, hospitalization, travel time, times, time, elapsed time, continuance, duration, calendar week, week, midweek, field day, life-time, life, lifespan, lifetime, life, life, millenary, 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) millennium (noun)
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations a span of 1000 years
the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause (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
an amount of time the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it)
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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