trimester vs period

period vs trimester

trimester and period both are nouns.

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

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

trimester: a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided
period: an amount of time

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

trimester (noun)	period (noun)
a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided	a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
one of three divisions of an academic year	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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