Christian era Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun the time period beginning with the supposed year of Christ's birth
Common era.
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- the present era, commencing with the birth of Christ. It is supposed that owing to an error of a monk (Dionysius Exiguus, d. about 556) employed to calculate the era, its commencement was fixed three or four years too late, so that 1890 should be 1893 or 1894.
