B.C.E.

Bachelor of Chemical Engineering.
Bachelor of Christian Education.
Bachelor of Civil Engineering.

before (the) Common Era.

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Examples from the Web for bce

Contemporary Examples of bce

Neolithic humans lived in the caves pocking its slopes, and by around 1400 BCE a fortified palace was built atop the Acropolis.
Virgin Sacrifice and the Meaning of the Parthenon
Nick Romeo
February 12, 2014
You, and millions like you, may have recently discovered meditation, an age-old practice dating back to the 1st millenium BCE.
These 7 iPhone Apps for Meditation Make Us Want To Inhale, Exhale, Inhale, Exhale
Courtney Boyd Myers
January 26, 2014
Hanukkah is the celebration of a Jewish military victory in the second century BCE.
Sarah Palin Is Here to Save Christmas, Thank God
Candida Moss
November 13, 2013
But by 167 BCE, Jews had dispersed enough that often grandfathers, fathers, and sons no longer lived in the same cities.
How Jews Invented Heaven
Lisa Miller
March 28, 2010

Historical Examples of bce

Se e ne bi Godes tempel, he bi deofles tempel, and byr swie swre byrene on his bce.
The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
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Confucius expressed the philosophy on which this religion is based on sayings and dialogues during the 6th-5th century BCE.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
Mihai Nadin

British Dictionary definitions for bce

BCE

abbreviation for

Before Common Era (used, esp by non-Christians, in numbering years bc)

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Word Origin and History for bce

BCE

see B.C.E.

B.C.E.

initialism for "Before Common Era" or "Before Christian Era," 1881; see C.E. A secular alternative to B.C.

bce in Science

BCE

Abbreviation for before the Common Era.

bce in Culture

B.C.E.

An abbreviation sometimes used in place of b.c. It means “before the Common Era.”