Amoraim ("expounders"): The sages of the Talmud who were active during the end of the era of the sealing of the Mishnah, and until the times of the sealing of the Talmud (220CE500CE).
Amoraim ("expounders"): The rabbis who worked on the Talmud during a transitional period, from the completion of the Mishnah to the sealing of the Talmud (220-500 CE).