era

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a major division of geological time

   an era is usually divided into two or more periods

2. 2
   noun

   A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   Initialism of earned run average, a baseball statistic.

   Taylor, listed at 6-foot-3 and 230 pounds, went 0-1 with a 1.01 ERA in 15 games for Birmingham. He struck out 37 in 26 2/3 innings.

4. 4
   name

   Initialism of Equal Rights Amendment, a proposed amendment to the US Constitution.

   ERA meant the equality of women, to those who urgently sought it, to those who abhorred it, and to those who found it obvious if not entirely redundant.

5. 5
   noun

   a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event

6. 6
   noun

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

7. 7
   noun

   An indefinite period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular interest.

8. 8
   noun

   Initialism of Earth rotation angle (the rotation of the Earth from the Celestial Intermediate Origin that has no instantaneous motion along the equator.)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.