Era

An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography, as in the regnal eras in the history of a given monarchy, a calendar era used for a given calendar, or the geological eras defined for the history of Earth.[1]

Comparable terms are epoch, age, period, saeculum, aeon (Greek aion)[2] and Sanskrit yuga.[3]

  1. ^ "Era | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary". Cambridge Dictionary. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Thesaurus.com - The world's favorite online thesaurus!". Thesaurus.com. 6 December 2023. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  3. ^ "Yuga". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d. Retrieved 11 December 2023.

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