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Time Vocabulary

 

Everyday terms relating to time and chronology

Basic history vocabulary

Intermediate

Advanced

(More appropriate for able GCSE or ‘A’ level pupils?)

Before/after

Sooner/later

Past/present/future

Previous

Recent

Modern

Hour

Day

Week

Month

Year

Beforehand

Date

Beginning

Early/earlier/earliest First

Last/later/latest

Old/new

Anniversary

Lifetime

Ancient

Medieval

Modern

Middle Ages

Calendar

Period

Age

Long ago

Decade

Century

Reign

Anno Domini

Before Christ

A.D./B.C. History

historical

Common Era.

C.E./B.C.E.

Chronology

Archaeology Prehistory

Primitive Remote

Prehistoric Distant

Millenium Pre-

Post- Ante-

Neo- Succession

Hereditary Duration

Contemporary Era

Generation Extinct

Mature (fig.) Obsolete

Anachronism Infancy (fig.)

Constant Eternity

Eternal Monumental

Permanent Restore

Dark Ages Tudor

Victorian Norman

Plantagenet Georgian

Renaissance Reformation

Anglo-Saxon Elizabethan

Early modern Napoleonic

Pre-war Stone Age

Anachronism Edwardian

Jubilee centenary

Regency

Proto-

Antecedent

Durable

Transient

Transitional

Precursor

Epoch

Aeon

Classical

Pre-Raphaelite

Pre-Copernican

Gregorian..

Julian..

Revolutionary Calendars

Postmodern

Post-Fordist

Post-imperial

Post-industrial

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