oligozän
German, adjective/oliɡoˈt͡sɛːn/
oligozän is spelled O-L-I-G-O-Z-Ä-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written German, the 168,023rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Oligozän is a German adjective meaning “Oligocene” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “aus dem erdgeschichtlichen Zeitabschnitt Oligozän stammend, das Oligozän betreffend”.
What does oligozän mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Oligocene
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. geologischer Zeitabschnitt von 23 bis 34 Millionen Jahren vor unserer Zeit, in dem vor allem sehr große herbivore Säugetiere lebten
adjective: 1. aus dem erdgeschichtlichen Zeitabschnitt Oligozän stammend, das Oligozän betreffend
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of oligozän
- oligozäner masculine nominative singular
- oligozäne feminine nominative singular
- oligozänes neuter nominative singular
- oligozänen genitive masculine singular
- oligozänem dative masculine singular
- der oligozäne definite includes-article masculine
- die oligozäne definite feminine includes-article
- das oligozäne definite includes-article neuter
- die oligozänen definite includes-article nominative
- des oligozänen definite genitive includes-article
- der oligozänen definite feminine genitive
- dem oligozänen dative definite includes-article
- den oligozänen dative definite includes-article
- Oligozäns genitive singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce oligozän?
- /oliɡoˈt͡sɛːn/
- /oliɡoˈt͡seːn/
- [oliɡoˈt͡sɛːn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to oligozän
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is oligozän in German?
oligozän appears about once in every 10 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).