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English noun: era | |||
| 1. | era (time) a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event | ||
| Synonyms | epoch | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | period, period of time, time period | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | age, day, historic period, modern era | ||
| Instance hyponym | Caliphate, Christian era, Common era | ||
| 2. | era (time) a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods | ||
| Synonyms | geological era | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | geologic time, geological time | ||
| Instance hyponym | Age of Mammals, Age of Reptiles, Cenozoic, Cenozoic era, Mesozoic, Mesozoic era, Paleozoic, Paleozoic era | ||
| Part holonym | geological period, period | ||
| Part meronym | aeon, eon | ||
| 3. | ERA (communication) (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 | ||
| Synonyms | earned run average | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | criterion, measure, standard, touchstone | ||
| Domain category | baseball, baseball game | ||
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