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hera | era |

As a proper noun hera

is hera, the queen of the gods, the goddess of marriage and birth, and the patroness of women.

As a noun era is

era, age.

hera

English

(wikipedia Hera)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (Greek god) The queen of the gods, and goddess of marriage and birth; daughter of Cronus and Rhea, sister and wife of Zeus,Oxford Dictionary of World Mythology , Arthur Cotterell, Oxford University Press, 1986 mother of Hephaestus, Ares, and Hebe.

    • See also

    * Juno

    References

    Anagrams

    * * * * ----

    era

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=6 citation , passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Philip E. Mirowski , title=Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits , volume=100, issue=1, page=87 , magazine= citation , passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}
  • (geology) A unit of time, smaller than .

    • Synonyms

    * (time period of indeterminate length) age, epoch, period * See also

    Derived terms

    * (geological time unit)

    Coordinate terms

    *

    Anagrams

    * ----