Era
A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.
A period of time reckoned from some particular date or epoch; a succession of years dating from some important event; as, the era of Alexander; the era of Christ, or the Christian era (see under Christian).
A period of time in which a new order of things prevails; a signal stage of history; an epoch.
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Era Quotations
It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
Theodore Roosevelt
I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern - wearing head-to-toe designer has become a bit passe. It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.
Alexander McQueen
Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.
Morihei Ueshiba
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
Andrew Jackson
I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
Ogden Nash
Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
Richard M. Nixon
I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.
Jimmy Buffett
You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
David Hockney
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
W. Somerset Maugham
You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field.
Johnny Bench
Era Translations
era in Danish is epoke
era in Dutch is tijdperk, tijdsgewricht
era in Finnish is ajanjakso
era in German is Epoche
era in Italian is era, epoca
era in Latin is aetas, tempus temporis
era in Spanish is era, epoca
era in Swedish is tidevarv, era, skede
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