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era, n.
(eras)
freq. cnt. 14
more info a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
<noun.time>   freq. cnt.: 19 freq. cnt.: 14 freq. cnt.: 5

epoch era
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
epochal
semantic pointers
hypernym
period, period of time, time period
instance hyponym
Caliphate Christian era, Common era
hyponym
day age, historic period modern era
more info a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods
<noun.time>

era geological era
semantic pointers
hypernym
geological time, geologic time
instance hyponym
Cenozoic, Cenozoic era, Age of Mammals Mesozoic, Mesozoic era, Age of Reptiles Paleozoic, Paleozoic era
part holonym
eon, aeon
part meronym
period, geological period