historic period vs epoch

epoch vs historic period

historic period and epoch both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
historic period	Yes	No	No	No
epoch	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, epoch is a hypernym of historic period; that is, epoch is a word with a broader meaning than historic period:

historic period: 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 historic period include era.

historic period (noun)	epoch (noun)
an era of history having some distinctive feature	a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
	a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages
	(astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded

Difference between historic period and epoch

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