Era
Era noun - An extent of time associated with a particular person or thing.
Usage example: the introduction of the mass production of cars on an assembly line ushered in the era of the automobile
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Generation
Generation noun - Group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent.
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Era is a synonym for generation in phase topic. You can use "Era" instead a noun "Generation", if it concerns topics such as time, age.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| old | old era | old generation |
| particular | particular era | particular generation |
| certain | certain era | certain generation |
| present | present era | present generation |
| Other adjectives: future, current, original, entire, wrong, new, early, immediate, given, past, later, last, different, older, recent, earlier, previous, modern, post-war. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- The Temporal Prime Directive doesn't even exist yet; time travelers from the future have mentioned it, but the "current time" of the Next Generation-Voyager era has a whole rat's nest of (almost completely unenforceable) rules instead that the main characters routinely ignore.
Source: Alien Non-Interference Clause -
The majority of the generation of that era would most likely be survivors during the time when US air raids were common during World War II.
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Generation Xerox: The anime shows the III series as something that happened a long time ago in the IV series universe, which means that each of the ensemble had an identical (both appearance and personality) counterpart in the other era.
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