Common Era

[ kom-uhn eer-uh, er-uh ]

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.

Common Era

noun

1. another name for Christian Era

Common Era

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

Example Sentences

The beginning of a century of the common era is a purely artificial division of time.

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He uses the common era, though we have no reason to believe that this was done by the writers who immediately preceded him.

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Hence, to reduce a Macedonian date to the common era, subtract 311 years and four months.

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Tighernach was probably the first Irish historian who used the common era—that of the Incarnation.

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The year 70 of the common era was a most disastrous one for the Jews.

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