epoch-making

1. 1.

   highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era

   “epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill”

   “an epoch-making discovery”

   Synonymsepochal

   Similarsignificant

Questions about epoch-making

What does epoch-making mean?

epoch-making means "highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era".

How many syllables are in epoch-making?

epoch-making has 4 syllables: e-poch--ma-king. The stress falls on "poch-".

What is another word for epoch-making?

Close synonyms include epochal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is epoch-making a common word?

epoch-making is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.