epoch
📖 Definitions
noun
A distinctive time period in history.
💬 Usage Examples
“Half a millennium from now, Asia and sub-Saharan Africa will have become great engines of productivity. Stranger things have happened. A millennium ago real output per person was significantly higher in China than in Britain. To predict that a European backwater would lead the world into the most transformative economic epoch in history would have seemed like madness.” Hitting the Big Time; The Economist (London, UK); Apr 20, 2019.