years vs period

period vs years

years and period both are nouns.

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

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

years: a prolonged period of time
period: an amount of time

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

years (noun)	period (noun)
a late time of life	a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
a prolonged period of time	the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
the time during which someone's life continues	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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