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Eras

Era \E"ra\, n.; pl. Eras. [LL. aera an era, in earlier usage, the items of an account, counters, pl. of aes, aeris, brass, money. See Ore.]

  1. 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.
    --R. S. Poole.

  2. 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.
    --M. Arnold.

  3. 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.
    --J. A. Symonds.

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

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eras

n. (plural of era English)

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ERAS

ERAS may refer to:

  • Eras, a sans-serif typeface
  • Electronic Residency Application Service, a service for medical school graduates seeking residency in the United States.
  • Committee for a Radical Left Rally (ERAS), a left-wing political organisation in the Republic of Cyprus.

Usage examples of "eras".

Naturally, we concentrate on crucial eras like yours, and eras which are poorly documented.

But I never conveyed to them the real criticality of what was happening in both eras, especially this one.

The old theses, la Tocqueville, of the continuity of administrative bodies across different social eras are thus profoundly revised when not completely discarded.

The mediating, symbolic history of Lafayette could therefore link politics and culture as well as nations or historical eras or generations.

She asked where I had picked up the uncommon words I used, and how I happened to know the names of the various geological eras, and the rulers of France, and things like that, and finally she got around to asking if I had ever had my IQ tested.

There were no eras, as such, in China, but time was understood to consist of a series of cycles.

And he compared the findings of stratigraphy, palaeontology and physical geography to identify three separate eras with three distinct forms of life.

Ferry was convinced, as Auguste Comte was convinced before him, that the theological and metaphysical eras were a thing of the past and that the positive sciences would be the basis of the new order.

In past eras, the leaders and ruling families of the Arab world could claim legitimacy from divine right, military conquest, traditional societal structures, descent from the Prophet, or Pan-Arabism.