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era names

era names is the plural of era name.

Meaning of era name

Noun

era name (plural era names)

  1. The regnal year, reign period, or regnal title used when traditionally numbering years in an emperor's reign and naming certain Sinospheric rulers.
    • The posthumous names of early Chinese rulers were often variations of a few words like "the martial one" 武 (wǔ), "the literary one" 文, "the filial one" 孝 (xiào), but by the Tang they had become so long that people began using rulers' temple names or era names instead.

Questions about era names

What is era names the plural of?
Era names is the plural of era name.

Words near era names in the dictionary

  1. Er Rif
  2. er.
  3. ER=EPR
  4. era
  5. era name
  6. era names
  7. Era of Great Power
  8. Era Vulgaris
  9. era-defining
  10. ERAA
  11. ERAAs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: era names (page history and authors); era name (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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