glacial period

1. 1.

   any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface

   “the most recent ice age was during the Pleistocene”

   Synonymsice ageglacial epoch

   Broaderperiod

   Part ofprehistory

Questions about glacial period

What does glacial period mean?

glacial period means "any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface".

What is another word for glacial period?

Close synonyms include ice age, glacial epoch. 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 glacial period a common word?

glacial period 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.