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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 did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.
Martin Milner

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

There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.
Michael Stipe

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

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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