時代

じだい

noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi), noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
  • period
  • epoch
  • era
  • age
  • the times
  • those days
  • oldness
  • ancientness
  • antiquity
  • antique
  • period piece

Related Kanji

time, hour
substitute, change, convert, replace, period, age, counter for decades of ages, eras, etc., generation, charge, rate, fee

Example Sentences

今や時代との競争になった。
It was now a race against time.
Thank you. I used to play tennis in high school.
He was really a child of his times.
These quotations were effective in sending complex messages to his friends, because, in his day, people could quote from such authors with every expectation of being understood.
もっとよい時代生まれていたら有名になっていただろう
Born in better times, he would have become famous.