prohibition vs period

period vs prohibition

prohibition and period both are nouns.

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

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

prohibition: the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
period: an amount of time

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

prohibition (noun)	period (noun)
the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)	a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
a decree that prohibits something	the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
refusal to approve or assent to	an amount of time
a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages	the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment	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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