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

The last timeframe in the book is the Common Era, the past 2,000 years, when humans have dominated life on Earth.

From Scientific American

It came into Europe four or five centuries before the Common Era, and Europeans brought it to the New World, where it devastated the Indigenous populations.

From New York Times

A groundbreaking study led by Raphael Neukom of the University of Bern investigated the scope of natural warming and cooling events experienced by the planet since the start of the Common Era two millennia ago.

From Scientific American

Unfortunately, limitations inherent in the proxies themselves probably still hamper our ability to compare warm or cool intervals with each other throughout the entire Common Era.

From Nature

"While we have some written records of leprosy cases that predate the Common Era, none of these have yet been confirmed on a molecular level."

From BBC