historic period

/hɪˌstɔrɪk ˌpɪriəd/

Other forms: historic periods

Definitions of historic period

1. noun

   an era of history having some distinctive feature
   synonyms: age

   examples:

   Age of Reason

   a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine

   Elizabethan age

   a period in British history during the reign of Elizabeth I in the 16th century; an age marked by literary achievement and domestic prosperity

   Victorian age

   a period in British history during the reign of Queen Victoria in the 19th century; her character and moral standards restored the prestige of the British monarchy but gave the era a prudish reputation

   Baroque period

   the historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe

   Middle Ages

   the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance

   Renaissance

   the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries

   Italian Renaissance

   the early period when Italy was the center of the Renaissance

   technological revolution

   the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation

   Reign of Terror

   the historic period (1793-94) during the French Revolution when thousands were executed

   Harlem Renaissance

   a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

   New Deal

   the historic period (1933-1940) in the United States during which President Franklin Roosevelt's economic policies were implemented

   Reconstruction Period

   the period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union; 1865-1877

   Restoration

   the reign of Charles II in England; 1660-1685

   Great Depression

   a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment

   types:

   antiquity

   the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe

   golden age

   any period (sometimes imaginary) of great peace and prosperity and happiness

   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

   the period during which a monarch is sovereign

   turn of the century

   the period from about ten years before to ten years after a new century

   type of:

   epoch, era

   a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event