Common Era

American  

[kom-uhn eer-uh, er-uh] / ˈkɒm ən ˈɪər ə, ˈɛr ə /

noun

1. the period of time that begins with the year 1: a term often used by non-Christians to avoid the reference to Christ in Christian Era. C. E.

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Common Era British  

noun

1. another name for Christian Era

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Common Era Scientific  

1. The period beginning with the year traditionally thought to have been birth of Jesus.

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Example Sentences

Finally, dates are given using the Gregorian calendar, the international standard for civil calendars, with “BCE” to indicate developments occurring before the Common Era and “CE” to mark events in our own era.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Translated into our Common Era chronological systems, those numerals would be: 683, 684 and 686.

From Scientific American • Jul. 28, 2022

However, these models exaggerate the degree of cooling caused by the two largest volcanic eruptions of the Common Era: the ad 1257 Samalas and the ad 1815 Tambora eruptions in Indonesia11.

From Nature • Jul. 23, 2019

Their discussions give no indication that these debates belong to a theological tradition that stretches back to the earliest centuries of the Common Era.

From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2017

BC, in those terms, is BCE--Before the Common Era.

From Concordance A Terran Empire concordance by Wilson, Ann