We found 2 definitions of historic period from 2 different sources.
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historic period - an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age" | ||
age | ||
epoch, era a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages | ||
history the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view" | ||
antiquity an artifact surviving from the past | ||
golden age (classical mythology) the first and best age of the world, a time of ideal happiness, prosperity, and innocence; by extension, any flourishing and outstanding period | ||
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 royal authority; the dominion of a monarch | ||
turn of the century the period from about ten years before to ten years after a new century |