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age vs epoch

epoch vs age

age and epoch both are nouns.

age is a verb but epoch is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
age Yes No Yes No
epoch Yes No No No
As nouns, epoch is a hypernym of age; that is, epoch is a word with a broader meaning than age:
  • age: an era of history having some distinctive feature
  • epoch: a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
Other hypernyms of age include era.
age (noun) epoch (noun)
how long something has existed a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages
a late time of life (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded
an era of history having some distinctive feature
a prolonged period of time
age (verb) epoch (verb)
grow old or older
begin to seem older; get older
make older
Difference between age and epoch

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