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period vs season

season vs period

period and season both are nouns.

period is not a verb while season is a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
period Yes No No No
season Yes No Yes No
As nouns, season is a hyponym of period; that is, season is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than period:
  • period: an amount of time
  • season: one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions
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, 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, time of year, canicular days, canicule, dog days, midwinter, 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) season (noun)
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions
the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause a recurrent time marked by major holidays
an amount of time a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field
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
period (verb) season (verb)
make healthy
make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
lend flavor to
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