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noun

Era n. (pl. eras)

A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned. "The foundation of Solomon's temple is conjectured by Ideler to have been an era."

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). "The first century of our era."

A period of time in which a new order of things prevails; a signal stage of history; an epoch. "Painting may truly be said to have opened the new era of culture."

Synonyms: Epoch; time; date; period; age; dispensation. See Epoch.

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... of hell, and coined our heart's blood into dollars to fill his selfish coffers of princely luxury. Down through the ringing ages of the future this day will be forever celebrated as the day that signals the dawning of a new era in the industrial ...

— Helen of the Old House • Harold Bell Wright

... amount, he is not robbing his insurance company, in the common acceptance of the term in this era of "frenzied finance," though he has absolutely appropriated to himself a profit which belongs to ...

— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson

... near the Mission of Dolores and his son, through marriage, had combined this with another large estate. There a second generation of the Garvez family had looked down from a palatial hacienda upon spreading grain-fields, wide-reaching pastures and corrals of blooded stock. They had seen the Mission era wax and wane and Mexico cast off the governmental shackles of Madrid. They had looked askance upon the coming of the "Gringo" and Francisco Garvez II, in the feebleness of age, had railed against ...

— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman

... Macnab, and you know what that means. Then he took to working off bogus gold propositions on Kimberley and Johannesburg magnates, and what he didn't know about salting a mine wasn't knowledge. After that he was in the Kalahari, where he and Scotty Smith were familiar names. An era of comparative respectability dawned for him with the Matabele War, when he did uncommon good scouting and transport work. Cecil Rhodes wanted to establish him on a stock farm down Salisbury way, but Peter was an independent devil and would call no man ...

— Greenmantle • John Buchan

... treasured only son, worshipped by his doting parents and his nurse, Alison Cunningham, who was a second mother to him, reports himself to have been a good child. He also says he had a covenanting childhood. In the mid-Victorian era, a stricter discipline reigned over nurseries in Scotland's capital than now. "The serviceable pause" in the week's work on Sunday was not without real benefits, for the children of these times, if sermons were long and ...

— Robert Louis Stevenson • E. Blantyre Simpson

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