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HISTORIC PERIOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An era of history having some distinctive feature
Example:
we live in a litigious age
Synonyms:
age; historic period
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("historic period" is a kind of...):
epoch; era (a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "historic period"):
antiquity (the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe)
golden age (any period (sometimes imaginary) of great peace and prosperity and happiness)
Jazz Age (the 1920s in the United States characterized in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a period of wealth, youthful exuberance, and carefree hedonism)
turn of the century (the period from about ten years before to ten years after a new century)
reign (the period during which a monarch is sovereign)
Instance hyponyms:
Depression; Great Depression (a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment)
Restoration (the reign of Charles II in England; 1660-1685)
Reconstruction; Reconstruction Period (the period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union; 1865-1877)
New Deal (the historic period (1933-1940) in the United States during which President Franklin Roosevelt's economic policies were implemented)
Harlem Renaissance (a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished)
Reign of Terror (the historic period (1793-94) during the French Revolution when thousands were executed)
Industrial Revolution; technological revolution (the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation)
Italian Renaissance (the early period when Italy was the center of the Renaissance)
Renaissance; Renascence (the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries)
Dark Ages; Middle Ages (the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance)
Baroque; Baroque era; Baroque period (the historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe)
Victorian age (a period in British history during the reign of Queen Victoria in the 19th century; her character and moral standards restored the prestige of the British monarchy but gave the era a prudish reputation)
Elizabethan age (a period in British history during the reign of Elizabeth I in the 16th century; an age marked by literary achievement and domestic prosperity)
Age of Reason; Enlightenment (a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine)
Holonyms ("historic period" is a part of...):
history (the aggregate of past events)
