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machine age

machine age proper noun: an era, from approximately 1880 to 1945, characterised by the rapid development and widespread use of machinery and industrial technology.

Proper noun

the machine age

  1. An era, from approximately 1880 to 1945, characterised by the rapid development and widespread use of machinery and industrial technology.
    • The spread of popular education in conjunction with the coming of the machine age and its concomitants, have together sufficed to create a rubber-stamped mentality. The popular Press, the cinema and the radio have resulted in the emergence of a public, the component members of which, with...1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 5

Questions about machine age

What does machine age mean?
Machine age means an era, from approximately 1880 to 1945, characterised by the rapid development and widespread use of machinery and industrial technology.
What part of speech is machine age?
Machine age is a proper noun.

Words near machine age in the dictionary

  1. machinators
  2. machinatrices
  3. machinatrix
  4. Machinda
  5. machine
  6. machine age
  7. machine code
  8. machine codes
  9. machine cycle
  10. machine cycles
  11. machine elf

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