English Explanatory Dictionary

Axial Age

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The age from about the 8th to the 3rd century BCE, during which broad changes in religious and philosophical thought occurred in a variety of locations.

Word forms

Axial Age

Etymology

Calque of German Achsenzeit.

Synonyms

Axis Age
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