Associations to the word «Holocene»

Wiktionary

HOLOCENE, adjective. (geology) Of a geologic epoch within the Neogene period from about 11,000 years ago to the present; the age of man.
HOLOCENE, proper noun. (geology) The Holocene epoch.

Dictionary definition

HOLOCENE, noun. Approximately the last 10,000 years.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope