[yoo
g-uh] 
| 1. | an age of time. |
| 2. | any of four ages, the Satya, the Treta, the Dvapara, and the Kali, each worse than the last, forming a cycle due to begin again when the Kali has come to an end. |
| Yu·ga (yŏŏg'ə) n. Hinduism One of the four ages constituting a cycle of history. [Sanskrit yugam, yoke, pair, era; see yeug- in Indo-European roots.] |