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Plural of era

regular plural

The plural of era is eras.

Forms of era

Singularera /ˈɪə.ɹə/
Pluraleras
Countablecountable

Eras in a sentence

  • In eras when trade was largely by barter and taxes were usually paid in kind, moneyless transactions could constitute a large percentage of a national economy.From the entry moneyless
  • My favorite X-Men eras were when they were center of Xavierism and Magnetoism.2023 December 19, @Bedachange40, X (post), archived from the original on 29 Apr 2026. From the entry Magnetoism
  • Photographs can be perfect anemoia triggers, and this one works by layering retro longing from several different eras.2024 January 14, Tim Adams, “The big picture: layers of nostalgia on London’s Oxford Street”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry anemoia
  • They naively (or is it narrowmindedly?) believe that the unpardonable sin of past eras was not having twentieth-century thoughts.1997, Harold Raley, A Watch Over Mortality: The Philosophical Story of Julian Marias, →ISBN, page 145. From the entry naively
  • Somehow, though, I learned to overlook the archaic, to be open to the oddnesses of different eras, and to read for something else.2020 June 25, Tegan Bennett Daylight, “My mother taught me the joy of reading. I remember her through books”, in Katharine Viner, editor…. From the entry sticky

Meaning of era

  1. noun A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
  2. noun A geochronologic unit of tens to hundreds of millions of years; a subdivision of an eon, and subdivided into periods.
  3. noun An indefinite period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular interest.

Full definition of era

Questions about the plural of era

What is the plural of era?
The plural of era is eras.
Is era countable?
Era is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: era (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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