Dictionary entry details
• HISTORIC PERIOD (noun)
Meaning:
A stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
historic period; historical period; period
Context example:
a novel from the Victorian period
Hypernyms ("historic period" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Meaning:
An era of history having some distinctive feature
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
age; historic period
Context example:
we live in a litigious age
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)
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)
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)
Holonyms ("historic period" is a part of...):
history (the aggregate of past events)
