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 • Sep. 26, 2023

It was not until the early centuries of the Common Era that the western stream penetrated Angola in the far southern extreme of West Africa.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

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 • 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