epoch-making
epoch-making adjective: constituting an epoch; opening a new era; introducing new conceptions or a new method in the treatment of a subject; highly novel and influential.
Adjective
epoch-making (not comparable)
- Constituting an epoch; opening a new era; introducing new conceptions or a new method in the treatment of a subject; highly novel and influential.
- The play itself was "sound," though not epoch-making. The performance of the leading lady was satisfactory and exactly what was to be expected from her.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
- Equally to be expected, in view of the trend of Government legislation and pronouncements over the past few years—but no less epoch-making for that—is the proposal that the railways and canals shall cease to be common carriers and be entirely free to fix their own passenger and freight charges, […].1961 December, “Editorial: Führerprinzip for nationalised transport”, in Trains Illustrated, page 705
- Synonyms:
- earthshaking, earthshattering
Synonyms of epoch-making
Forms of epoch-making
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Origin of epoch-making
Calque of German epochemachend.
Questions about epoch-making
- What does epoch-making mean?
- Epoch-making means constituting an epoch; opening a new era; introducing new conceptions or a new method in the treatment of a subject; highly novel and influential.
- What part of speech is epoch-making?
- Epoch-making is an adjective.
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