recent epoch

1. 1.

   approximately the last 10,000 years

   SynonymsHoloceneHolocene epochRecent

   Broaderepoch

   Part ofQuaternary

Questions about recent epoch

What does recent epoch mean?

recent epoch means "approximately the last 10,000 years".

What is another word for recent epoch?

Close synonyms include Holocene, Holocene epoch, Recent. 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 recent epoch a common word?

recent epoch 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.