historic period

historic period
noun
an era of history having some distinctive feature
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we live in a litigious age

Syn: ↑age
Hypernyms: ↑era, ↑epoch
Hyponyms: ↑antiquity, ↑golden age, ↑Jazz Age, ↑reign, ↑turn of the century
Instance Hyponyms:
Part Holonyms: ↑history

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