English Explanatory Dictionary

Little Ice Age

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A period of cooling (not a true ice age) that followed the Medieval Warm Period and continued from about 1300 to about 1850.

Word forms

Little Ice Age the Little Ice Age

Etymology

From little + ice age, coined by Dutch-American topographer and geologist François E. Matthes in 1939.

Synonyms

LIA
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