historic period

Noun
  1. An era of history having some distinctive feature (synset 115278839)
    "we live in a litigious age"
    is a type of: epoch, era - a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
    subtypes:
    • antiquity - the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe
    • golden age - any period (sometimes imaginary) of great peace and prosperity and happiness
    • jazz age - the 1920s in the United States characterized in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a period of wealth, youthful exuberance, and carefree hedonism
    • reign - the period during which a monarch is sovereign
    • turn of the century - the period from about ten years before to ten years after a new century
    specific instances:
    • age of reason, enlightenment - a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine
    • elizabethan age - a period in British history during the reign of Elizabeth I in the 16th century; an age marked by literary achievement and domestic prosperity
    • victorian age - a period in British history during the reign of Queen Victoria in the 19th century; her character and moral standards restored the prestige of the British monarchy but gave the era a prudish reputation
    • baroque, baroque era, baroque period - the historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe
    • dark ages, middle ages - the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance
    • renaissance, renascence - the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries
    • italian renaissance - the early period when Italy was the center of the Renaissance
    • industrial revolution, technological revolution - the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation
    • reign of terror - the historic period (1793-94) during the French Revolution when thousands were executed
    • harlem renaissance - a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
    • new deal - the historic period (1933-1940) in the United States during which President Franklin Roosevelt's economic policies were implemented
    • reconstruction, reconstruction period - the period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union; 1865-1877
    • restoration - the reign of Charles II in England; 1660-1685
    • depression, great depression - a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
    is a part of: history - the aggregate of past events
    same as: age

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