Era
['ɪərə] or ['ɪrə]
Definition
(noun.) a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods.
(noun.) a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
Editor: Segre--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.
(n.) A period of time reckoned from some particular date or epoch; a succession of years dating from some important event; as, the era of Alexander; the era of Christ, or the Christian era (see under Christian).
(n.) A period of time in which a new order of things prevails; a signal stage of history; an epoch.
Typist: Perry
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Series or succession of years (marked by any administration or dispensation).[2]. Epoch, period, date, age, point or period of time (from which dates are reckoned).
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Definition
n. a series of years reckoned from a particular point or that point itself: an important date.
Editor: Whitney
Examples
- Cultures of chicken chol era virus kept for some time became less active. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The invention of the phonograph by Edison in 1878 marked a new era in the popularity and dissemination of music. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Each lasted perhaps for four or five more thousand years, more than double the time from the Christian Era to our own day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The dates belong away back in the dawn of the Christian era, of course. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- These hunters lived on open steppes for two hundred centuries or so, ten times the length of the Christian era. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Printing from letters engraved on blocks of wood is an ancient art, having had its origin in China many centuries before the Christian era. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I am thinking of a great fellow, who was about as old as I am three hundred years ago, and had already begun a new era in anatomy. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Out of the knowledge of disease germs has grown the great era of antiseptic surgery, inaugurated by Sir Joseph Lister, about 1865. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Much of the history of the Christians in the first two centuries of the Christian era is very obscure. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was Pliny who wrote, at the beginning of the Christian era, that All the usages of civilised life depend in a remarkable degree upon the employment of paper. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The adventures of the Yellow Diamond begin with the eleventh century of the Christian era. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Strange, is it not, that a race still using cross-bows in its army should have known of explosives long before the Christian Era, and perhaps as far back as the time of Moses? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But with the Nineteenth Century a new era has dawned. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The foregoing might be considered a short synopsis of the pork-packing industry up to the point which we will call the Modern Era. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They mark a vast era, during which life was slowly spreading, increasing, and developing in the seas of our world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- During the early Christian and medieval eras spoons were in common use. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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