ice age

noun

1
: a time of widespread glaciation
2
capitalized I&A : the Pleistocene glacial epoch

Examples of ice age in a Sentence

changes that occurred during the last ice age
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Much later, during the last ice age around 20,000 years ago, massive glaciers advanced across the landscape, scraping and deepening the low-lying areas left behind by the hotspot. Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025 The Pleistocene was characterized by dramatic changes in climate, including a series of ice ages. Andre A. Naranjo, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2025 Like mammoths, mastodons disappeared toward the end of the last ice age, when a series of factors, including climate change and human hunting, drove many large animals to extinction, as Jess Thomson reports for Newsweek. Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024 Between 720 million and 635 million years ago, Earth plunged into a series of super ice ages. David Bressan, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ice age 

Word History

First Known Use

1855, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of ice age was in 1855

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“Ice age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20age. Accessed 26 Jan. 2025.

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ice age

noun
1
: a time of widespread glaciation
2
capitalized I&A : the most recent such period in the earth's past

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