glacial epoch   (TTS Sound)

The noun glacial epoch has 2 senses

• ice age, glacial period, glacial epoch -- (any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface; "the most recent ice age was during the Pleistocene")


• Pleistocene, Pleistocene epoch, Glacial epoch -- (from two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution)