Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or characteristic of an epoch.
- adjective Highly significant or important; momentous.
- adjective Without parallel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging to an epoch; of the nature of an epoch; relating to epochs; marking an epoch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Belonging to an epoch; of the nature of an epoch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of or pertaining to an
epoch - adjective highly
important orsignificant ; monumentous,epoch-making
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era
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Examples
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Clement Nyirenda also remarks on how the punditry got it wrong, and finds the voting pattern for the incumbent president's win epochal:
Global Voices in English » Malawi elections: Upending the pundits’ predictions 2009
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The word epochal is overstated, but it felt like it then and it has subsequently proved to be that.
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The word epochal is overstated, but it felt like it then and it has subsequently proved to be that.
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The word epochal is overstated, but it felt like it then and it has subsequently proved to be that.
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The word epochal is overstated, but it felt like it then and it has subsequently proved to be that.
The Guardian World News David Smith 2010
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True, Barack Obama was elected president in a political upheaval that can only be described as epochal, but, well, you don't really think Cheney's just going to quietly vacate his office come January 20th, do you?
Chez Pazienza: One Last Look Back: The 10 Most Ridiculous, Shameful, or Generally Unfortunate People and Events of 2008 Chez Pazienza 2010
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True, Barack Obama was elected president in a political upheaval that can only be described as epochal, but, well, you don't really think Cheney's just going to quietly vacate his office come January 20th, do you?
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True, Barack Obama was elected president in a political upheaval that can only be described as epochal, but, well, you don't really think Cheney's just going to quietly vacate his office come January 20th, do you?
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True, Barack Obama was elected president in a political upheaval that can only be described as epochal, but, well, you don't really think Cheney's just going to quietly vacate his office come January 20th, do you?
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Well, but of this God Abraham asks -- in what I must continue to call the epochal sentence in the
Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678 Israel Zangwill 1895
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