American English pronunciation
How to pronounce epoch
IPA transcription: ['ɛpək]
Pronunciation variants: ['ɛpək]['ipək]
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Noun
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a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
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(astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded
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a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages
Usage examples
- During the epoch, a majority of the city's buildings were erected.
- What did your books tell you about this epoch of the city?
- The huge city walls gave the wall epoch its name.
- The repertoire contains all musical epochs.
- What did your books tell you about this epoch of the city?
- The epoch lasted two hundred years.
- During the epoch, a majority of the city's buildings were erected.
- What did your books tell you about this epoch of the city?
- What did your books tell you about this epoch of the city?
- Currently, we are in the Haweran stage of the Wanganui epoch.