Christian Era

[kris-chuhn eer-uh, er-uh]

noun

1. the period since the assumed year of Jesus' birth.

Christian Era

noun

1. Also called: Common Era. the period beginning with the year of Christ's birth. Dates in this era are labelled _ad , those previous to it _bc

Word History and Origins

Origin of Christian Era¹

First recorded in 1650–60

Example Sentences

Lil Nas X cannot. “yall mind if i enter my christian era?” he asked on Instagram a few weeks ago, in a caption to a video in which he sang a folk-gospel song more elegant than anything he’s thus far released.

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Nearly three years after that, Lil Nas is back with another biblical-inspired song and video for what he is calling his "Christian era."

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It is therefore ludicrous to claim that the "traditional" Christian view was that life begins at conception, since through the first nearly two millennia of the Christian Era, no one clearly understood when or how conception took place.

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The part the shells played in the enslavement and forced transportation of people predates the Christian era by 1,000 years.

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St. Paul, who lived in the first century of the Christian era, spread the new faith into Europe and Asia Minor and is believed to have written a great part of the New Testament.

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