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æra

æra is the archaic spelling of era.

Meaning of era

Noun

era (plural eras)

  1. 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.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  2. A geochronologic unit of tens to hundreds of millions of years; a subdivision of an eon, and subdivided into periods.
  3. (informal) An indefinite period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular interest.

Forms of æra

pluralæras

Questions about æra

What is æra the archaic spelling of?
Æra is the archaic spelling of era.

Words near æra in the dictionary

  1. æquivalents
  2. æquivocal
  3. æquivocate
  4. æquivocation
  5. æquivocations
  6. æra
  7. ærarian
  8. æras
  9. æroplane
  10. æroplanes
  11. ærose

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Adapted from Wiktionary: æra (page history and authors); era (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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