Noun: æra
Sample Sentences
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It is desirable that all people should adopt one and the same æra, independant of moral revolutions, and founded solely on astronomical phænomena. (On the System of the World) [1798, Pierre Simon La Place, “Exposition du Système du Monde [On the System of the World]”, in The Monthly Review, new and improved, →ISBN, page 500:]
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In the fourth century of our æra we find this word made plural, and even feminine, and used as the equivalent of Parcæ. [1892, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, London: George Bell and Sons, page 5:]
Nouns inflected like æra
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology