Era and Past

Era

Era noun - An extent of time associated with a particular person or thing.

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Past and era are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Past" instead a noun "Era".

Past noun - The events or experience of former times.

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Era and past are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Era" instead a noun "Past".

similar	similar era	similar past
present	present era	present past
future	future era	future past
medieval	medieval era	medieval past
Other adjectives: romantic, actual, entire, ancient, new, Nazi, prehistoric, alternate, different, said, recent, historical, colonial, feudal.

In Transdimensional Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the GM was to have an important recurring character recognize the characters in a future era even if they hadn't met him yet in a past one.

Source: You Already Changed the Past
Then there's the past in relation to "the past", in which, despite the fact that it's roughly supposed to be the Marauders' era, everyone's getting to and from Hogwarts by woolly mammoths.

Source: Fan Fic / ITS MY LIFE!
Other mysteries lurk in the Ninth Doctor's era, mostly revolving around how fresh his face was in his first episode and whether he knew or had anything to do with Jack Harkness's past life.

Source: Writer-Induced Fanon

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