era

Meaning

Noun

• A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
• A unit of time, smaller than eon and greater than period.

Related

Similar words

• age, epoch, period

Narrower meaning words

• stelliferous era, degenerate era, black hole era
• Cenozoic era, erathem, Mesozoic era, Paleozoic era

Origin

• Borrowed from Late Latin aera.