noun
definition
A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
definition
A unit of time, smaller than eons and greater than periods.
Examples of eras in a Sentence
Few women wore similar fashions from similar eras.
Most of the modern buildings have been erected after celebrated prototypes of other countries and eras, so that, as has been said by Moriz Carriere, a walk through Munich affords a picture of the architecture and art of two thousand years.
But it is necessary to notice here the different Eras and Periods that have been employed by historians, and by the different nations of the world, in recording the succession of time and events, to fix the epochs at which the eras respectively commenced, to ascertain the form and the initial day of the year made use of, and to establish their correspondence with the years of the Christian era.
Certain kings and certain eras were intense' manism.
Raid your grandparents' attics or ask other family members if they've held onto patio furniture from eras past.
The potters of the Middle Kingdom, from the early eras of the Ming dynasty down to the latest years of the 18th century, stood absolutely without rivals as makers of porcelain.
In subsequent eras the potters of King-te-chen did not fail to continue this remarkable manufacture, but its only Japanese representative was a porcelain distinctly inferior In more than one respect, namely, the egg-shell utensils of Hizen and Hirado, some of which had finely woven basket-cases to protect their extreme fragility.
Lacquer-making, however, being essentially an art and not a mere handicraft, has its eras of great masters and its seasons of inferior execution.
Two faults, however, marred the workfirst, the shapes were clumsy and unpleasing, being copied from bronzes whose solidity justified forms unsuited to thin enamelled vessels; secondly, the colors, sombre and somewhat impure, lacked the glow and mellowness that give decorative superiority to the technically inferior Chinese enamels of the later Ming and early Tsing eras.
The Augustan age was one of those great eras in the world like the era succeeding the Persian War in Greece, the Elizabethan age in England, and the beginning of the 19th Lk y.
Several cycles were formerly known in Europe; but most of them were invented for the purpose of adjusting the solar and lunar divisions of time, and were rather employed in the regulation of the calendar than as chronological eras.
His last letter is dated the 28th of June 1536, and subscribed "Eras.
Particular states also not unfrequently introduced fixed eras, which obtained a more or less extensive currency, as the era of the first Olympiad (776 B.C.), of the foundation of Rome (753 B.C.), and of the Seleucidae at Antioch (312 B.C.), which is followed by the Jewish author of the first book of Maccabees.
An important geological characteristic of most of the Cordilferan region is that the Carboniferous strata, which in western Europe and the eastern United States contain many coal seams, are represented in the western United States by a marine limestone; and that the important unconformity which in Europe and the eastern United States separates the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic eras does not occur in the western United States, where the formations over a great area follow in conformable sequence from early Palaeozoic through the Mesozoic.
Berytus was destroyed by the usurper Trypho in 140 B.C. Tyre in 120 and Sidon in 111 received complete independence, and inaugurated new eras from these dates.
Yet when we include under a common name two eras so distinct as this and that preceding, our term becomes so vague as to be almost valueless.
Even the glories of the Achaemenid Empire faded rapidly, and all but completely, from recollection; so also the conquest of Alexander, and the Hellenistic and Parthian eras.
The ancient and the modern eras met together on the Capitol at Petrarch's coronation, and a new stadium for the human spirit, that which we are wont to style Renaissance, was opened.
In the sub-provinces under the lieutenant-governor of Bengal dwell a great congeries of peoples, of widely diverse origin, speaking different languages and representing far separated eras of civilization.
Volume one includes the colonial and independence eras up to 1850.
In different eras many efforts have been made toward Caribbean unity, for instance, the proposed West Indian confederation in the 19th century.
In past geological eras, various rocks including quartzite, grits and the Durness limestones were laid over much of the area.
The oldest and for the most part Jewish portion of this literature is preserved to us in Greek, Armenian, Latin and Slavonic. (i.) The Greek Ooryr7vcs r€pi 'ASaµ rcai Eras (published under the misleading title 'AlroicaXvi/ics Mwvo ws in Tischendorf's Apocalypses Apocryphae, 1866) deals with the Fall and the death of Adam and Eve.
Gowland has shown that, whatever may have been the practice of Japanese bronze makers in ancient and medieval eras, their successors in later days deliberately introduced arsenic and antimony into the compound in order to harden the bronze without impairing its fusibility, so that it might take a sharper impression of the mould.
But to his services to Roman oratory we have to add his services not indeed of the lost literature in determining the spirit, form and style of the eras of more perfect accomplishment which followed is unmistakable.
Though it was not one of the great eras in the annals of literature, yet the century which produced Martial, Juvenal and Tacitus cannot be pronounced barren in literary originality, nor that which produced Seneca and Quintilian devoid of culture and literary taste.
Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.
It is the morning watch, it is what saints of God in bygone eras called ' the trysting time '.
Thus, clay litter became a revolutionary improvement over the sand and shredded newspaper bits that were commonly used to fill a cat box during prior eras.
Penned by Mary Hope Osborne, these stories relay the adventures of brother and sister, Jack and Annie, as they explore different eras throughout history.
A child can begin with the series at a young age and work his way through all of the books as he completes elementary grade levels, enjoying the stories of Jack and Annie as they tackle new adventures through different eras.
Today many of the new china cabinets with curves are made in styles of past eras.
It was here that the techniques and knowledge collected from many cultures and eras were brought together in a cohesive, albeit eclectic, form.
Living room design ideas for eclectic tastes involve combining furnishings from a blend of sources and eras.
A clever designer will be able to integrate pieces from multiple eras and still maintain a coherent look.
You can sometimes find actual relics of the Victorian era at these places, and it's easy to embellish accents from other eras to give them a Victorian feel.
You get the look of eras past with the benefits of modern production.
Whereas in previous eras you had to find a psychic in your own town at a traditional brick-and-mortar shop, the Internet opens up new potential in this field.
Almost all of the games you'll find online are classic Nintendo games from the NES, SNES and GameBoy eras.
These shirts typically have a faded look and vintage style and may be designed with either modern logos or recreations from eras past that have a Christian spin.
Blue Velvet Vintage carries both one-of-a-kind, authentic vintage gowns and vintage-inspired styles from a number of different eras so you can be sure to find the look you desire.
Selecting a shower curtain is not the simple affair it was in past eras.
However, there is no clear definition for retro eras.
Imagine what life might have been like if the Internet had been around during The Beatles' and Elvis Presley's eras.
Even in the financially strapped eras of the 1930s and 1940s, girls' party clothes featured plenty of frills (think of Shirley Temple in any of her movies).
Therefore, girls can read about kids who lived in different eras, providing them with an educational experience as well as play.
Instead of pampering yourself and winning or losing money on ship casinos, you'll get to hear the tales of bygone eras in the region, fish, watch birds, and more.
After all, in bygone eras when pesticides weren't commercially available, people relied on their kitchen gardens for food year-round, and needed to test and use what worked.
The band's late 1960s origin and their contemporary appeal make Blue Oyster Cult tabs desirable to musicians across a range of eras and styles.
Jewelry sells beautiful modern replicas of jewelry from the 1920s and other vintage eras that evoke the Chanel look.