Era and Set

Era

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

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

Set noun - A group of people acting together within a larger group.

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Era and set are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Era" instead a noun "Set".

Nearby Words: setup, setting

old	old era	old set
particular	particular era	particular set
better	better era	better set
similar	similar era	similar set
Other adjectives: specific, right, complete, certain, current, original, actual, entire, wrong, main, new, next, alternate, last, different, recent, previous.

Well, when Ginko was designed the writer was imagining the story set in the modern era, with the first story set in a traditional house deep in the woods, but it somehow slipped into an alternate feudal era, leaving him with his anachronisms.

Source: Mukokuseki
Hotline Miami is set in 1989 and has the graphics you'd expect from an arcade game of that era.

Source: Retraux / Video Games
In Space Seed, the Eugenics Wars (set during the 1990s) was mentioned by Spock to be in the "era of your last so called World War".

Source: Retcon / Live-Action TV

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