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Definition of Common era

1. Noun. The time period beginning with the supposed year of Christ's birth.

2. Adverb. Of the period coinciding with the Christian era; preferred by some writers who are not Christians. "In 200 CE"

Definition of Common era

1. Proper noun. the method of numbering years whereby the current internationally recognized year is (CURRENTYEAR) on the Gregorian calendar; secular equivalent of anno Domini and the Christian Era. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Era

Common Celtic Common Era Common Gateway Interface Common Gateway Interfaces Common Germanic Common Intermediate Language Common Language Infrastructure Common Language Runtime Common Language Specification Common Lisp

Common Market Common Oceanian Common Slavic Common Slavonic Common Type System Common era (current term) Commons Commonwealth Commonwealth Day Commonwealth English

Commonwealth Games Commonwealth of Australia Commonwealth of Dominica Commonwealth of Independent States Commonwealth of Nations Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Commonwealth of the Bahamas Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth realm Communard

Literary usage of Common era

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are ...by John Jamieson, John Johnstone by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"Oar author admits, that, during the fifth century before our common era, the Goths " inhabited the western shores of the Euxine, on the south of the Danube. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"But in reducing Alexandrian date* tu ш common era, it must be observed that Julius ... Dates expressed according to this era are reduced to tk common era by ..."

3. A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical, Political, and by James Bell (1832)
"The first year of thr first Olym- piad begins in the summer of the Tilth year before the common era ; the first year nf the second Olympiad, in the summer ..."

4. Syllabus (in English) of the Documents Relating to England and Other by Great Britain Public Record Office, Thomas Duffus Hardy (1869)
"Each date has been reckoned according to the historical or common era commencing on the 1st of January, and not according to the Civil, Ecclesiastical, ..."

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