Definition of Era

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Definition of Era

Era

A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.

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).

A period of time in which a new order of things prevails; a signal stage of history; an epoch.

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Era Quotations

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
Theodore Roosevelt

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
Ogden Nash

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
Andrew Jackson

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
Richard M. Nixon

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.
Jimmy Buffett

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.
Norman Rockwell

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.
Curtis Lemay

Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.
Morihei Ueshiba

We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy.
Jeffrey Sachs

Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
Al Sharpton

Era Translations

era in Danish is epoke
era in Dutch is tijdperk, tijdsgewricht
era in Finnish is ajanjakso
era in German is Epoche
era in Italian is era, epoca
era in Latin is aetas, tempus temporis
era in Spanish is era, epoca
era in Swedish is tidevarv, era, skede

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