Era meaning

What does “era” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“era” is a noun with 3 meanings. Its most common meaning is: a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.

era

noun

  1. a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event

    Synonymsepoch
  2. a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods

  3. (baseball) a measure of a pitcher's effectiveness; calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University