epochal
English
Adjective
epochal (comparative more epochal, superlative most epochal)
- Of or pertaining to an epoch.
- (figuratively) Highly important or significant; monumental, epoch-making.
- 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 250:
- It had been an epochal decade for cancer epidemiology, but equally, an epochal decade for tobacco.
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /epɔˈχaːl/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aːl
Adjective
epochal (strong nominative masculine singular epochaler, comparative epochaler, superlative am epochalsten)
- epochal
- 1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 1, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 30:
- „Epochal!“ sagte Hans Castorp. „Epochal für die Entwicklung unserer Schiffahrt, – gar nicht zu überschätzen. Wir setzen fünfzig Millionen als sofortige einmalige Ausgabe dafür ins Budget, und du kannst überzeugt sein, wir wissen genau, was wir tun.“
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