era

Plural: eras

Noun

• A distinct period of time in history or a person's life.
• a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
• a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods
• (baseball) a measure of a pitcher's effectiveness; calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched
• A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
• A geochronologic unit of tens to hundreds of millions of years; a subdivision of an eon, and subdivided into periods.
• An indefinite period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular interest.

Examples

• in my Taylor Swift era
• That game-winning bingo marked a new era in his Scrabble dominance.

Synonyms

earned run average, epoch, geological era, Great Year, Platonic year, age, cycle, day, era, generation, interval, period, time