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eras

eras is the plural 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.

Noun capitalized: ERAs

ERAs

  1. (plural) plural of ERA

Phrases with eras

Questions about eras

What is eras the plural of?
Eras is the plural of era.
What part of speech is eras?
Eras is a noun.

Words near eras in the dictionary

  1. Eranad
  2. eranthemum
  3. eranthin
  4. Erap
  5. Eraring
  6. eras
  7. erasabilities
  8. erasability
  9. erasable
  10. erasable programmable logic device
  11. erasable programmable logic devices

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eras (page history and authors); ERAs (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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