epoch
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
Types & categories
- period hypernym
- day hyponym
- historic period hyponym
- modern era hyponym
- Caliphate instance hyponym
- Christian era instance hyponym
Related & opposite
- epochal derivation
Sense 2 noun
(astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded
Types & categories
- date hypernym
Related & opposite
- astronomy domain topic
Sense 3 noun
a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages
Types & categories
- geological time hypernym
- Holocene instance hyponym
- Pleistocene instance hyponym
- Pliocene instance hyponym
- Miocene instance hyponym
- Oligocene instance hyponym
- Eocene instance hyponym
- Paleocene instance hyponym
Parts & wholes
- geological period part holonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | epochal |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | period |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | day |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | historic period |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | modern era |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Caliphate |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Christian era |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | astronomy |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | date |
| 3 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | geological period |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | geological time |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Holocene |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Pleistocene |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Pliocene |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Miocene |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Oligocene |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Eocene |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Paleocene |