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epoch
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[ˈɛpɒk], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a particular period of time in history or a person's life
(e.g: the Victorian epoch)
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Origin
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early 17th century (in the Latin form epocha; originally in the general sense of a date from which succeeding years are numbered): from modern Latin epocha, from Greek epokhē ‘stoppage, fixed point of time’, from epekhein ‘stop, take up a position’, from epi ‘upon, near to’ + ekhein ‘stay, be in a certain state’
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