English noun: historic period |
1. | historic period (time) an era of history having some distinctive feature |
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| Samples | We live in a litigious age.
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| Synonyms | age |
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| Broader (hypernym) | epoch, era |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | antiquity, golden age, Jazz Age, reign, turn of the century |
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| Instance hyponym | Age of Reason, Baroque, Baroque era, Baroque period, Dark Ages, Depression, Elizabethan age, Enlightenment, Great Depression, Harlem Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, Italian Renaissance, Middle Ages, New Deal, Reconstruction, Reconstruction Period, Reign of Terror, Renaissance, Renascence, Restoration, technological revolution, Victorian age |
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| Part meronym | history |
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