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8 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun approximately the last 10,000 years
originFrom French Holocène, based on holo- (“whole”) + Ancient Greek καινός (kainós, “fresh, new”). Coined to replace the earlier (1833) label Recent, formally submitted in 1867 and officially endorsed in 1969. The concept is that this epoch is entirely (wholly) new. By surface analysis, holo- + -cene.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- echelon 12
- elench 11
- ochone 11
- cholo 10
- choon 10
- cohoe 10
- hence 10
- leech 10
- loche 10
- looch 10
- chon 9
- coho 9