Значення

значень: 2
  1. A period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence of major polar ice sheets that reach the ocean and calve icebergs.

    The earth is currently in the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, an ice age that began 33.9 million years ago with the Antarctic Ice Cap.

  2. (розмовне)Any of several glacial periods (within a scientific ice age) marked by episodes of extensive glaciation alternating with episodes of relative warmth (interglacial).

    Eiszeit, Eiszeitalter, Glazial

    леднико́вый пери́одlednikóvyj períod, обледене́ниеobledenénije, оледене́ниеoledenénije

    льодовико́ва е́раlʹodovykóva éra, льодовико́вий пері́одlʹodovykóvyj períod

Ще визначення
  • any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface

Приклади

речень: 6
  1. It was during the ice age that the saber-toothed tiger became extinct.

    ruСаблезубые тигры вымерли во время ледникового периода. — GranD

    deDer Säbelzahntiger ist während der Eiszeit ausgestorben. — samueldora

  2. Did you ever hear of the Ice Age?

  3. If the Earth went into an Ice Age next month, how would you prepare?

  4. There may have been as many as four different Ice Ages in the past.

    deEs könnte in der Vergangenheit bis zu vier Eiszeiten gegeben haben. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. NEFU is considered the premier center for research into woolly mammoths and other prehistoric, ice age species.

Українська
any of several glacial periods:
Русский
any of several glacial periods:
Deutsch
any of several glacial periods:

Походження

Perhaps a calque of German Eiszeit.

Perhaps a calque of German Eiszeit.

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Форми

множина: ice ages
Однинаice age
Множинаice ages

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Синоніми

синонімів: 2
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