Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

machine age

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.76 in modern English

Syllables: ma-chine age
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An era, from approximately 1880 to 1945, characterised by the rapid development and widespread use of machinery and industrial technology.

Example Sentences

"The spread of popular education in conjunction with the coming of the machine age and its concomitants, have together sufficed to create a rubber-stamped mentality. The popular Press, the cinema and the radio have resulted in the emergence of a public, the component members of which, with exceptions so rare as to be negligible, think alike and function alike."

Inflected Forms

the machine age (canonical)

Questions

What does machine age mean?: An era, from approximately 1880 to 1945, characterised by the rapid development and widespread use of machinery and industrial technology.

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