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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era;
- Example: "epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill"
- Example: "an epoch-making discovery"
[syn: epochal, epoch-making]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Epochal \Ep"o*chal\, a.
   Belonging to an epoch; of the nature of an epoch. "Epochal
   points." --Shedd.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

epochal
    adj 1: highly significant or important especially bringing about
           or marking the beginning of a new development or era;
           "epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill"; "an
           epoch-making discovery" [syn: epochal, epoch-making]