era

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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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+ noun
a period of time, usually in history, that is different from other periods because of particular characteristics or events: the Victorian / modern / post-war era + When she left the firm, it was the end of an era (= things were different after that). + a new era of peace

Thesaurus dictionary

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n.

age, period, time(s), day(s), epoch, stage; generation, cycle, date:

They lived in an era of peace.

Collocation dictionary

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ADJ.

golden, great

the golden era of radio

| new | present | modern | bygone, past, previous

The room had the elegance of a bygone era.

| post-imperial, post-war | Edwardian, Victorian, etc. | Clinton, Thatcher, etc. | Christian, Common

the early centuries of the Christian/Common Era

VERB + ERA

usher in

The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in a whole new era.

| enter, move into

The country has entered an era of high unemployment.

ERA + VERB

begin | end

PREP.

during/in an/the ~

We live in an era of religious uncertainty.

| into ~

a practice that has survived into the present era

| ~ in

a new era in the history of art

PHRASES

the beginning/dawn/dawning of a (new) era, be on the threshold of a new era, the end of an era

Concise English dictionary

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eras'ɪərə
noun
+a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
+a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods
+(baseball) a measure of a pitcher's effectiveness; calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched