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say it: PLAHY-stuh-seen
pleistocene is a noun meaning "from two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution". It is pronounced /ˈplaɪstəˌsin/ — PLAHY-stuh-seen. It carries one recorded sense.
from two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pleistocene come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.