æra
Full definition of æra
Noun
æra
(plural æras)- Obsolete spelling of era
- 1798, Pierre Simon La Place, Exposition du Système du Monde translated as “on the System of the Worldâ€, chapter III: “on Time, and its measureâ€, quoted in 1799 in The Monthly Review, new and improved, page 500:It is desirable that all people should adopt one and the same æra, independant of moral revolutions, and founded solely on astronomical phænomena.