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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or being the epoch of geologic time from about 10,000 years ago to the present, the more recent of the two epochs of the Quaternary Period. It began at the end of the last Ice Age and is characterized by the development of human civilizations.
  • noun The Holocene Epoch.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The geological period comprising approximately the last 10,000 years.

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  • adjective geology Of a geologic epoch within the Neogene period from about 11,000 years ago to the present; the age of man.
  • noun geology The Holocene epoch.

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  • noun approximately the last 10,000 years

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