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# era

«era» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long period of history with special features or events…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an era, eras)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An era is a long period of history with special features or events, like the Victorian era. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/era/#m1)

2) (science) In geology, an era is a very long period of Earth's history, like the Mesozoic Era when dinosaurs lived. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/era/#m2)

3) An era is any period marked by something new, as in «the era of smartphones». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/era/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons (Victorian era, Tudor era), science (geological eras, dinosaurs), everyday talk («the end of an era»); phrases: a new era, end of an era, the modern era.

### examples

- Queen Victoria gave her name to the Victorian era. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/era/#x1)
- Dinosaurs lived in the Mesozoic Era. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/era/#x2)
- The internet started a new era. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/era/#x3)
- When our head teacher retired, it was the end of an era. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/era/#x4)
- Steam trains were common in that era. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/era/#x5)
- A new era seemed to have arisen in the poor studio. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/era/#x6)

### note

Countable. Uses «an era». Different words for time: an era is long; a decade is 10 years; a century is 100 years. CE and BCE are «Common Era» and «Before Common Era».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «era» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/era/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.