historic period

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Noun
1. a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period"
(synonym) period, historical period
(hypernym) time period, period of time, period
2. an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age"
(synonym) age
(hypernym) era, epoch
(hyponym) Elizabethan age
(part-holonym) history