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epoch
Overview of noun epoch
The noun epoch has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (5) era, epoch -- (a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event)
2. epoch, date of reference -- ((astronomy) the precise date that is the point of reference for which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is referred)
3. epoch -- (a unit of geological time)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun epoch
3 senses of epoch
Sense 1
era, epoch
=> time period, period of time, period
=> fundamental quantity, fundamental measure
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
epoch, date of reference
=> date
=> calendar day, civil day
=> time period, period of time, period
=> fundamental quantity, fundamental measure
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
=> calendar month, month
=> time period, period of time, period
=> fundamental quantity, fundamental measure
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
=> calendar year, civil year
=> year, twelvemonth, yr
=> time period, period of time, period
=> fundamental quantity, fundamental measure
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
epoch
=> geological time, geologic time
=> time
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun epoch
2 of 3 senses of epoch
Sense 1
era, epoch
HAS INSTANCE=> Caliphate
HAS INSTANCE=> Christian era, Common era
=> day
=> historic period, age
=> modern era
Sense 3
epoch
HAS INSTANCE=> Holocene, Holocene epoch, Recent, Recent epoch
HAS INSTANCE=> Pleistocene, Pleistocene epoch, Glacial epoch
HAS INSTANCE=> Pliocene, Pliocene epoch
HAS INSTANCE=> Miocene, Miocene epoch
HAS INSTANCE=> Oligocene, Oligocene epoch
HAS INSTANCE=> Eocene, Eocene epoch
HAS INSTANCE=> Paleocene, Paleocene epoch
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun epoch
3 senses of epoch
Sense 1
era, epoch
=> time period, period of time, period
Sense 2
epoch, date of reference
=> date
Sense 3
epoch
=> geological time, geologic time
Antonyms of noun epoch
Member Holonyms of noun epoch
Substance Holonyms of noun epoch
Part Holonyms of noun epoch
1 of 3 senses of epoch
Sense 3
epoch
PART OF: period, geological period
Member Meronyms of noun epoch
Substance Meronyms of noun epoch
Part Meronyms of noun epoch
Meronyms of noun epoch
Holonyms of noun epoch
1 of 3 senses of epoch
Sense 3
epoch
PART OF: period, geological period
Attributes of noun epoch
Derived Forms of noun epoch
1 of 3 senses of epoch
Sense 1
era, epoch
RELATED TO>(adj) epochal#1
=> epochal, epoch-making
Domain of noun epoch
1 of 3 senses of epoch
Sense 2
epoch, date of reference
TOPIC>(noun) astronomy#1, uranology#1
Domain Terms of noun epoch
Familiarity of noun epoch
epoch used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun epoch
3 senses of epoch
Sense 1
era, epoch
> time period, period of time, period
=> trial period, test period
=> time frame
=> hours
=> downtime
=> uptime
=> work time
=> time off
=> bout
=> hospitalization
=> travel time
=> times
=> time
=> elapsed time
=> duration, continuance
=> week, calendar week
=> midweek
=> field day
=> life, lifetime, life-time, lifespan
=> life
=> life
=> millennium, millenary
=> bimillennium, bimillenary
=> occupation
=> past
=> shelf life
=> puerperium
=> lactation
=> time of life
=> calendar day, civil day
=> festival
=> day, daytime, daylight
=> morning, morn, morning time, forenoon
=> night, nighttime, dark
=> night
=> night
=> night
=> eve
=> evening
=> week, hebdomad
=> fortnight, two weeks
=> weekend
=> Indian summer, Saint Martin's summer
=> year
=> school, schooltime, school day
=> year, twelvemonth, yr
=> year
=> semester
=> bimester
=> Olympiad
=> lustrum
=> decade, decennary, decennium
=> century
=> quadrennium
=> quinquennium
=> half-century
=> quarter-century
=> quarter
=> phase of the moon
=> day
=> calendar month, month
=> mid-January
=> mid-February
=> mid-March
=> mid-April
=> mid-May
=> mid-June
=> mid-July
=> mid-August
=> mid-September
=> mid-October
=> mid-November
=> mid-December
=> time limit
=> term
=> trimester
=> hour
=> silly season
=> Golden Age
=> silver age
=> bronze age
HAS INSTANCE=> Bronze Age
=> iron age
HAS INSTANCE=> Iron Age
HAS INSTANCE=> Stone Age
HAS INSTANCE=> Eolithic Age, Eolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Paleolithic Age, Paleolithic, Palaeolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Lower Paleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Middle Paleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Upper Paleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Mesolithic Age, Mesolithic, Epipaleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Neolithic Age, Neolithic, New Stone Age
=> great year, Platonic year
=> regulation time
=> overtime, extra time
=> season, time of year
=> dog days, canicule, canicular days
=> midwinter
=> season
=> season
=> long time, age, years
=> long run, long haul
=> drought, drouth
=> era, epoch
=> generation
=> prehistory, prehistoric culture
=> reign
=> run
=> youth, early days
=> dawn
=> evening
=> time
=> sleep, nap
=> lease, term of a contract
=> half life, half-life
=> tide, lunar time period
=> phase, stage
=> multistage
=> watch
=> peacetime
=> wartime
=> enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty, duty tour, tour
=> honeymoon
=> indiction
=> prohibition, prohibition era
=> incubation period
=> rainy day
=> novitiate, noviciate
=> flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush
=> running time
=> period, historic period, historical period
=> clotting time
=> air alert
HAS INSTANCE=> Great Schism
=> question time
=> real time
=> real time
=> study hall
=> usance
=> window
Sense 2
epoch, date of reference
> date
=> epoch, date of reference
Sense 3
epoch
> geological time, geologic time
=> eon, aeon
=> period, geological period
=> era, geological era
=> epoch
Meronyms of noun epoch
3 senses of epoch
=> calendar month, month
HAS PART: week, calendar week
HAS PART: workweek, week
HAS PART: midweek
Holonyms of noun epoch
1 of 3 senses of epoch
Sense 3
epoch
PART OF: period, geological period
PART OF: era, geological era
PART OF: eon, aeon
Grep of noun epoch
eocene epoch
epoch
glacial epoch
holocene epoch
miocene epoch
oligocene epoch
paleocene epoch
pleistocene epoch
pliocene epoch
recent epoch
Grep of adj epoch
epoch-making
epochal
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