æra

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

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Meanings

nounæra (plural æras)

plural æras

  1. archaicArchaic spelling of era.

    In the fourth century of our æra we find this word made plural, and even feminine, and used as the equivalent of Parcæ.

    1892, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, London: George Bell and Sons, page 5
    1 more example

    It is desirable that all people should adopt one and the same æra, independant of moral revolutions, and founded solely on astronomical phænomena.

    On the System of the World

    1798, Pierre Simon La Place, “Exposition du Système du Monde [On the System of the World]”, in The Monthly Review, new and improved, →ISBN, page 500
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