| NOUN | time | historic period, age | an era of history having some distinctive feature |
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| Meaning | An era of history having some distinctive feature. | |
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| Synonym | age | |
| Instances | Baroque, Baroque era, Baroque period | The historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe |
| Depression, Great Depression | A period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide / worldwide / worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment | |
| Elizabethan age | A period in British history during the reign of Elizabeth I in the 16th century | |
| Enlightenment, Age of Reason | A movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine | |
| Harlem Renaissance | A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished | |
| 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 | |
| Middle Ages, Dark Ages | The period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance | |
| New Deal | The historic period (1933-1940) in the United States during which President Franklin Roosevelt's economic policies were implemented | |
| Reconstruction, Reconstruction Period | The period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union | |
| Reign of Terror | The historic period (1793-94) during the French Revolution when thousands were executed | |
| Renaissance, Renascence | The period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world | |
| Restoration | The reign of Charles II in England | |
| Victorian age | A period in British history during the reign of Queen Victoria in the 19th century | |
| Part of | history | The aggregate of past events |
| Narrower | Jazz Age | The 1920s in the United States characterized in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a period of wealth, youthful exuberance, and carefree hedonism |
| antiquity | The historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe | |
| golden age | Any period (sometimes imaginary) of great peace and prosperity and happiness | |
| reign | The period during which a monarch is sovereign | |
| turn of the century | The period from about ten years before to ten years after a new century | |
| Broader | era, epoch | A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event |
| Spanish | época, era, periodo histórico, período histórico | |
| Catalan | època, era, període històric | |
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