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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

時 time, hour
代 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.
ありがとう。高校時代はよくテニスをしたものです。
Thank you. I used to play tennis in high school.
彼はまさしく時代の子であった。
He was really a child of his times.
こうした引用は友人に込み入った内容の連絡を行うのに効果的であった。彼の時代では理解してもらえることを充分に期待してそうした作家から引用できたからである。
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.
もっとよい時代に生まれていたら、彼は有名になっていただろう。
Born in better times, he would have become famous.