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Meanings of epoch in English
Moment in time used as a reference point for some time-varying astronomical quantity.
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Usage of epoch in English
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Karhide's on the brink of a new epoch, a great new age.
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Instead, get ready for a new epoch of air and sea wars.
3
Thomasius calls this a central epoch in the history of the world.
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The researchers are working towards a formal classification of the new epoch.
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He said it made an epoch in the life of the county.
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The idea of metempsychosis was very much in vogue at this epoch.
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The great epoch of the work is the building of the temple.
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The pontificate of Leo is an epoch in the history of Christianity.
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The so-called conversion of the king marks an epoch in human history.
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We are now actually in the second epoch of the Formative Age.
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This little battle marked an epoch in the history of the war.
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It coincides with the domestication of the dog, an epoch in hunting-life.
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The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was an epoch-making event.
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The lead in the new epoch thus opened was taken by Kuenen.
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The Devonian epoch added greatly to the outlines of the Belgian island.
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To us it is an occasion; to them it is an epoch.
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Epoch through the time
Epoch across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common