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era

1

[ er-uh, eer-uh ]

noun

    1. a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:

      The use of steam for power marked the beginning of an era.

    2. Slang. a period of time in a person’s life characterized by something distinctive and noticeable, such as a particular emotional state, relationship, achievement, or interest:

      She’s started wearing all black now that she’s in her sad girl era.

      They are definitely in their flop era and could use a complete makeover.

  1. the period of time to which anything belongs or is to be assigned:

    She was born in the era of hansoms and gaslight.

  2. a system of chronologic notation reckoned from a given date:

    The era of the Romans was based upon the time the city of Rome was founded.

  3. a point of time from which succeeding years are numbered, as at the beginning of a system of chronology:

    Caesar died many years before our era.

  4. a date or an event forming the beginning of any distinctive period:

    The year 1492 marks an era in world history.

  5. Geology. a major division of geologic time composed of a number of periods.


ERA

2

abbreviation for

  1. Emergency Relief Administration.
  2. Equal Rights Amendment: proposed 27th amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender.

era

1

/ ˈɪərə /

noun

  1. a period of time considered as being of a distinctive character; epoch
  2. an extended period of time the years of which are numbered from a fixed point or event

    the Christian era

  3. a point in time, esp one beginning a new or distinctive period

    the discovery of antibiotics marked an era in modern medicine

  4. geology a major division of geological time, divided into several periods

    the Mesozoic era



ERA

2

/ ˈiːrə /

acronym for

  1. (in Britain) Education Reform Act: the 1988 act which established the key elements of the National Curriculum
  2. (in the US) Equal Rights Amendment: a proposed amendment to the US Constitution enshrining equality between the sexes

era

/ îrə /

  1. A division of geologic time , longer than a period and shorter than an eon.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of era1

First recorded in 1605–15; from Late Latin aera “fixed date, era, epoch (from which time is reckoned),” probably special use of Latin aera “counters,” plural of aes “piece of metal, money, brass”; akin to Gothic aiz, Old English ār ore, Sanskrit ayas “metal”

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Word History and Origins

Origin of era1

C17: from Latin aera counters, plural of aes brass, pieces of brass money

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Synonym Study

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Example Sentences

He describes an agency stuck in the mainframe era that needed to come up to speed quickly to fight the threat.

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NBCUniversal is looking to update traditional TV measurement and planning for an era in which advertisers want to know how many sales they received versus how many people they reached.

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On top of all this, the company is benefiting from consumers’ growing aversion to cash in the pandemic era.

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Those of us who grew up in that era are now in our forties and fifties.

Speakers during the hearing floated several ideas about helping workers in the machine learning era.

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Even in the medieval era this disparity made Christians uncomfortable.

The number of dissenters though is unprecedented in the modern era.

Community policing is expensive and, in an era of budget cuts, increasingly rare.

There were stories of distant strife, in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Northern Ireland, and those stories had the whiff of a different era.

One of the most famous directors of this era was Shin Sang-ok (신상옥).

Science teaches that man existed during the glacial epoch, which was at least fifty thousand years before the Christian era.

In the preceding chapter an examination has been made of the purely mechanical side of the era of machine production.

They embody in themselves the uppermost thought of the era that was dawning when they were written.

Here was a bit of a civilization of a building era, that was almost old, everything being relative.

How often she had remembered that day as an era; the beginning of the best things in her uneventful life!

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