era

Alternative forms

• æra (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

Pronunciation

• enPR: îrʹə:
  • (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɪə.ɹə/, [ˈɪə̯.ɹə ~ ˈɪː.ɹə]

    • Audio (UK):

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  • (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /iə.ɹə/, [ˈi̞ə̯.ɹə ~ ˈiː.ɹə]
  • (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ɹə/, [ˈiː.ɹə]
  • (East Anglia, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɛː.ɹə/, [ˈɛ̝.ɹə ~ ˈe̞ː.ɹə]
  • Rhymes: -ɪəɹə
  • Homophone: airer (non-rhotic, cheer–chair merger)
• (US) enPR: ĕrʹə, îrʹə; IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹ.ə/, /ˈɪɚ.ə/

  • Audio (US); /ˈɛɹ.ə/:

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  • Homophone: error (/ˈɛɹ.ə/, non-rhotic)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɹə, -ɪəɹə
• Hyphenation: e‧ra

Noun

era (plural eras)

1. A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.

   • 2012 January, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 4 April 2012, page 87:

     In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.

2. (geology) A geochronologic unit of tens to hundreds of millions of years; a subdivision of an eon, and subdivided into periods.

Further reading

• era on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• 'ear, Åre, ear, Rea, rea, EAR, REA, aer-, A.R.E., ReA, ARE, aër-, Are, Aer, are, Rae

Noun

era

1. definite nominative singular of erë

Etymology

From Late Latin aera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɾa/ [ˈe.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: e‧ra

Noun

era f (plural eres)

1. era (time period)

   Synonyms: dómina, época

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian э́ра (éra), ultimately from Late Latin aera.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

era (definite accusative eranı, plural eralar)

1. era

   yeni eraya qədəm qoymaq ― to enter a new era

   eramızdan əvvəl ― before the common era

Further reading

• “era” in Obastan.com.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

era inan

1. manner

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈe.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈe.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -eɾa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin ārea (“open space; threshing floor”). Compare the borrowed doublet àrea.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Further reading

• “era” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “era”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “era” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “era” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Verb

era

1. (intransitive) to say

Pronunciation

• (Oklahoma) IPA^(key): [ɪɬɑ́ˑ]
• Hyphenation: e‧ra

Noun

era

1. his/her back

References

• J. B. Martin, M. McKane Mauldrin (2004) A dictionary of Creek/Muscogee, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 31
• J. B. Martin (2011) A grammar of Creek (Muscogee), University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 134

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.raː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: era
• Rhymes: -eːraː

Noun

era f (plural era's)

1. era, age, epoch

   Synonyms: eeuw, tijdperk

2. (dated) era, calendar

   Synonym: jaartelling

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈera/
• Rhymes: -era
• Hyphenation: er‧a

Adjective

era (accusative singular eran, plural eraj, accusative plural erajn)

1. adjective form of ero (“bit, piece”).

Verb

era

1. first-person singular imperfect indicative of sel (“to be”)
2. third-person singular imperfect indicative of sel (“to be”)
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme IV, Chapter 1: Non Diptongación da “E” i a “O” en Nossa Fala:

     Tampocu era normal en o leonés antiguu, según os estudius dos escritus i textus estudiaus, por ejemplu por Menéndez Pidal, quen tamén viñu i estudió o mañegu.

     Neither was it normal in Old Leonese, according to studies of the writings and the texts studied, by Menéndez Pidal for example, who also came and studied Mañego.

Verb

era

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch era, from Latin aera.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hitu [Term?]

Further reading

• “era” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Noun

era (plural eras)

1. era

Verb

era

1. optional irregular past tense form of esser ("to be")