end of an era
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4.3
- noun
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fin de una era
- The termination of that project spells the end of an era for high-energy physics in the US.
- signals the end of an era
Great news, and it's really the end of an era for the crypto collapse.
- Great news, and it's really the end of an era for the crypto collapse.
- It's going to be the end of an era.
- But I, I do think I was on the tail end of an era that it was kind of like this hush, hush, whisper.
- And what an end of an era.
- This could potentially be the end of an era.
- But yeah, it feels kind of like the end of an era.
- But it was, you know, it's it's the end of an era.
- And I, I just, it, it feels like a real end of an era.
- And so here we are, the end of my period, the end of an era.
- And I think one of the reasons that's correct is that it's the end of an era.
- So tomorrow is the second to last day of Lochmos, end of an era.
- And now the, the, the, the detector falls down out of the sky and it's the end of an era.
- What's hinted at here is that this is sort of the beginning of the end of an era of oppression.
Examples
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Last night could truly have been the end of an era that started in 2003.
Blog text (8) -
And we are at the end of an era.
Blog text (1) -
It's like the end of an era.
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Well, it's an end of an era when this show goes, guys.
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But we do believe it will be the end of an era.
Blog text (17) -
Do you feel this is the end of an era?
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We are seeing the end of an era at Fox News.
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Certainly, the largest financial disaster... in decades in this country... and, perhaps, the end of an era in American business.
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We are approaching the end of an era in educational philosophy.
Academic text (1998) -
When A Tribe Called Quest called it quits, it marked the end of an era.
Synonyms
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1.0
The final part of something, like an event, story, or relationship
How Significant
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the conclusion of a significant period' is directly and compositionally derived from 'end' (final stopping point) + 'of' + 'an' + 'era' (a span of time). This simple noun phrase structure and the literal relation between constituents is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
End of an era gives a clear picture: imagine a long, important show that ends when the curtain falls or a long calendar whose last page is torn off. So end and era together mean 'the end of an important time', and we use the phrase to talk about a big change in history or in someone's life.