HISTORICAL PERIOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does historical period mean? 

• HISTORICAL PERIOD (noun)
  The noun HISTORICAL PERIOD has 1 sense:

1. a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time

  Familiarity information: HISTORICAL PERIOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HISTORICAL PERIOD (noun)

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Meaning:

A stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

historic period; historical period; period

Context example:

a novel from the Victorian period

Hypernyms ("historical period" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)