nnoun.timea period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or eventSynset:era
Derivationally Related Form:epochal
Hypernyms:period period of time time period
Inherited Hypernyms:eratime periodfundamental quantitymeasureabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:agedayhistoric periodmodern era
Instance Hyponyms:Caliphate Christian era Common era
Full Hyponyms:antiquitydaygolden agehistoric periodinformation agejazz agemodern erareignturn of the century
nnoun.time(astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recordedTopic:astronomyuranology
Synset:date of reference
Hypernyms:date
Inherited Hypernyms:epochdatecalendar daytime periodfundamental quantitymeasureabstractionentity
Inherited Hypernyms:epochdatecalendar monthtime periodfundamental quantitymeasureabstractionentity
Inherited Hypernyms:epochdatecalendar yearyeartime periodfundamental quantitymeasureabstractionentity
nnoun.timea unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into agesPart Holonyms:geological period period
Hypernyms:geologic time geological time
Inherited Hypernyms:epochgeological timetimeattributeabstractionentity
Instance Hyponyms:Eocene Eocene epoch Holocene Holocene epoch Recent Recent epoch Miocene Miocene epoch Oligocene Oligocene epoch Paleocene Paleocene epoch Glacial epoch Pleistocene Pleistocene epoch Pliocene Pliocene epoch