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Common Era
[ kom-uhn eer-uh, er-uh ]
noun
- 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
- another name for Christian Era
Common Era
- The period beginning with the year traditionally thought to have been birth of Jesus.
Example Sentences
The last timeframe in the book is the Common Era, the past 2,000 years, when humans have dominated life on Earth.
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.
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.
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.
"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."
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