time of year vs period

period vs time of year

time of year and period both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
time of year	Yes	No	No	No
period	Yes	No	No	No

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

time of year: one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions
period: an amount of time

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

time of year (noun)	period (noun)
one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions	a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
	the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
	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

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