noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ golden , great
▪
the golden ~ of radio
▪ new
▪ different
▪ present
▪ modern
▪ bygone , earlier , past , previous
▪
The room had the elegance of a bygone ~.
▪ antebellum ( AmE ), pre-war
▪ post-war
▪ apartheid , civil rights , colonial , post-imperial
▪ Communist , Nazi , Soviet , etc.
▪ dotcom
▪ Clinton , Thatcher , etc.
▪ Edwardian , Napoleonic , Victorian , etc.
▪ Baroque , Classical , Romantic , etc.
▪ Christian , Common
▪
the early centuries of the Christian Era
▪ silent
▪
movies of the silent ~
VERB + ERA
▪ herald , mark , usher in
▪
The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in a whole new ~.
▪ enter , move into
▪
The country has entered an ~ of high unemployment.
▪ characterize , define
ERA + VERB
▪ begin
▪ end
PREPOSITION
▪ during an/the ~ , in an/the ~
▪
We live in an ~ of religious uncertainty.
▪ into ~
▪
a practice that has survived into the present ~
▪ ~ in
▪
a new ~ in the history of art
PHRASES
▪ the beginning of an ~ , the dawn of an ~ , the dawning of an ~
▪
It feels like the dawning of a new ~
▪ be on the threshold of a new ~
▪ the end of an ~