epoch

US: /ˈɛpək/, /ˈipək/
UK: /ˈɛpɒk/


English Vietnamese dictionary


epoch /'i:pɔk/
  • danh từ
    • sự bắt đầu của một kỷ nguyên (trong lịch sử, trong đời...)
      • to make an epoch: mở ra một kỷ nguyên

Advanced English dictionary


+ noun (formal or literary)
1 a period of time in history, especially one during which important events or changes happen: The death of the emperor marked the end of an epoch in the country's history.
2 (technical) a long period of time in the world's history or in the earth's development: geological epochs

Collocation dictionary


ADJ.

new | present | past | historical

VERB + EPOCH

mark
The dropping of the first atom bomb marked a new epoch in warfare.

PREP.

during/in an/the ~
the importance of the computer in the present epoch
| ~ of
an epoch of great social change

PHRASES

the beginning/end of an epoch


Concise English dictionary


epochs'iːpɒk
noun
+a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
+(astronomy) the precise date that is the point of reference for which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is referred
+a unit of geological time