American English pronunciation
How to pronounce era
IPA transcription: ['ɛɹə]
Pronunciation variants: ['ɛɹə]['ɪɹə]
Hear “era” pronounced
['ɛɹə]
Quality: 0.99
['ɛɹə]
Quality: 0.99
['ɛɹə]
Quality: 0.99
Noun
-
a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
-
a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods
-
(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
Usage examples
- Simmons thereby set the record for the shortest federal Cabinet career in Canadian history.
- The act also provided Federal funding assistance towards non-food purchases for school equipment.
- The crash of the UFO shows that extraterrestrials are also vulnerable.
- Subsequently, the word 'cateran' came to refer to those Highland bandits or malefactors.
- Luther Preparatory School is the oldest Lutheran high school in the United States.
- Carry lookahead logic uses the concepts of "generating" and "propagating" carries.
- His work was highly influential on the younger generation of maritime painters.
- One Zero approached within several feet of Baggett.
- Currently, Cora is the General Manager of the Puerto Rico national baseball team.
- In general, people have difficulties estimating risks correctly.