reign vs period

period vs reign

reign and period both are nouns.

reign is a verb but period is not a verb.

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

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

reign: a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful
period: an amount of time

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

reign (noun)	period (noun)
royal authority; the dominion of a monarch	a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
the period during which a monarch is sovereign	the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful	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

reign (verb)	period (verb)
have sovereign power
be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance

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