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6 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun approximately the last 10,000 years
adjective new
adjective of the immediate past or just previous to the present time
originAs classifier for a geological epoch coinciding with human presence (“Recent era”) introduced by Charles Lyell in 1833.
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