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RECENT EPOCH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Recent epoch mean?
• RECENT EPOCH (noun)
The noun RECENT EPOCH has 1 sense:
1. approximately the last 10,000 years
Familiarity information: RECENT EPOCH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Approximately the last 10,000 years
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Holocene; Holocene epoch; Recent; Recent epoch
Instance hypernyms:
epoch (a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages)
Holonyms ("Recent epoch" is a part of...):
Age of Man; Quaternary; Quaternary period (last 2 million years)
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