historic period

1. 1.

   an era of history having some distinctive feature

   “we live in a litigious age”

   Synonymsage

   Broaderera

   NarrowerEnlightenmentElizabethan ageVictorian ageantiquitygolden ageJazz AgeBaroqueMiddle AgesRenaissanceItalian Renaissance

   Part ofhistory

Questions about historic period

What does historic period mean?

historic period means "an era of history having some distinctive feature".

What is another word for historic period?

Close synonyms include age. 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 historic period a common word?

historic 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.