Difference between Biannual and Period

What is the difference between Biannual and Period?

Biannual as an adjective is occurring twice a year; half-yearly; semiannual, twice-yearly. while Period as an adjective is appropriate for a given historical era.

Biannual

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Occurring twice a year; half-yearly; semiannual, twice-yearly. Occurring every two years; biennial.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Something occurring twice each year.

Period

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Appropriate for a given historical era.

Part of speech: interjection

Definition: And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Punctuation mark “” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).A length of time.An epoch, era, time in history or in a person's life.A specific length of time that an activity (such as a game or a school day) is conventionally divided into.The minimum interval during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.Female menstruation.A row in the periodic table of the elements.A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm

Example sentence: Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.

We hope you now know whether to use Biannual or Period in your sentence.

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