All 3 Uses of
epoch
in
Anne Of Green Gables
- An Epoch in Anne's Life†
Chpt 29 *
- "I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life.†
Chpt 29
- As Anne would have said at one time, it was "an epoch in her life," and she was deliciously athrill with the excitement of it.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(epoch) a significant period of timeThe exact meaning of epoch depends upon its context. For example:
- "an epoch of scientific discovery" -- an historical period
- "during the Late Jurassic epoch" -- a unit of geological time smaller than a period and larger than an age
- "the epoch moment of the photo" -- the time of an astronomical measurement