Holonyms: Quaternary (current period), Age of Man (dated)
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Anthropocene
//ˈæn.θɹə.pəˌsiːn//
Synonyms for "anthropocene" (1 found)
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20 translations across 18 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 人類世 /人类世 name (the current geological period)
Czech
1 entries- antropocén name (the current geological period)
Dutch
1 entries- antropoceen name (the current geological period)
Estonian
1 entries- antropotseen name (the current geological period)
Finnish
1 entries- antroposeeni name (the current geological period)
French
1 entries- anthropocène name (the current geological period)
Galician
1 entries- antropoceno name (the current geological period)
German
1 entries- Anthropozän name (the current geological period)
Greek
1 entries- Ανθρωπόκαινο name (the current geological period)
Japanese
3 entries- アンソロポシーン name (the current geological period)
- アントロポセン name (the current geological period)
- 人新世 name (the current geological period)
Korean
1 entries- 인류세 name (the current geological period)
Persian
1 entries- آنتروپوسین name (the current geological period)
Polish
1 entries- antropocen name (the current geological period)
Portuguese
1 entries- Antropoceno name (the current geological period)
Russian
1 entries- Антропоце́н name (the current geological period)
Slovak
1 entries- antropocén name (the current geological period)
Spanish
1 entries- Antropoceno name (the current geological period)
Swedish
1 entries- antropocen name (the current geological period)
Sample sentences
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The tempo of evolution in South American hamsters was very rapid – in the course of the Pliocene and Anthropocene 40 genera were formed here, at which time a series of them attained the level of tribe and subtribe (Oxymycteri, Phyllotiini, Ichthyomyini).
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The above palynologic data indicate that the evolutionary history of vegetation in the upper reaches of the Indigirka during the Holocene was much more complex than has been thought and than is reflected in the existing stratigraphic maps of the Anthropocene of the Northeast USSR[…].
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Considering these and many other major and still growing impacts of human activities on earth and atmosphere, and at all, including global, scales, it seems to us more than appropriate to emphasize the central role of mankind in geology and ecology by proposing to use the term "anthropocene" for the current geological epoch.
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