ICE AGE
Dictionary entry overview: What does ice age mean? • ICE AGE (noun)
The noun ICE AGE has 1 sense:
1. any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface
Familiarity information: ICE AGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ICE AGE (noun)
Meaning:
Any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
glacial epoch; glacial period; ice age
Context example:
the most recent ice age was during the Pleistocene
Hypernyms ("ice age" is a kind of...):
geological period; period (a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed)
Holonyms ("ice age" is a part of...):
prehistoric culture; prehistory (the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word)
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