era

Definition

Examples

The internet changed how people work in the modern era.

Synonyms

• epocha period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
• periodan amount of time
• agehow long something has existed

Collocations

• Easy modern era
  describing modern era (a contemporary person)
• Medium digital era
  describing digital era (displaying numbers rather than scale positions)
• Hard usher in a new era
  to usher in a new era, meaning to take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums
• Very Hard bygone era of fiscal austerity
  describing bygone era of fiscal austerity (past events to be put aside)