Yuga

American  

[yoog-uh] / ˈyʊg ə /

noun

Hinduism.

1. an age of time.

2. any of four ages, the Satya, the Treta, the Dvapara, and the Kali, each worse than the last, forming a cycle due to begin again when the Kali has come to an end.

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Yuga British  

/ ˈjʊɡə /

noun

1. (in Hindu cosmology) one of the four ages of mankind, together lasting over 4 million years and marked by a progressive decline in the vitality and morals of men

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Etymology

Origin of Yuga

Borrowed into English from Sanskrit around 1775–85

Example Sentences

Last month Yuga Labs - the creators of the talismanic Bored Ape NFTs - announced an unspecified number of redundancies.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2023

The company announced on Monday that it had settled a separate case against Thomas Lehman, a developer on Ripps’s NFT project, who admitted to infringing on the Yuga Labs brand.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2023

On Tuesday, Bloomberg reported that the Securities and Exchange Commission is conducting a private probe into Yuga Labs, the crypto juggernaut behind the bizarre, once-seemingly-ubiquitous Bored Ape Yacht Club.

From Slate • Oct. 12, 2022

“It seems like they’ve compromised a lot of stuff,” said Sam Curry, an engineer with Yuga Labs who communicated with the hacker.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2022

Why should he repeat a manifest lie,—that they had been over toward Bald Peak and were traveling toward the Yuga, and that they thought the cabin was unoccupied?

From The Snowshoe Trail by Marshall, Edison