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Current Era

Current Era is the alternative form of Common Era.

Meaning of Common Era

Proper noun

the Common Era

  1. The secular equivalent of anno Domini and the Christian Era, the internationally recognized method of numbering years on the Gregorian calendar.
    • The second Book is divided into eight Chapters, treats of the origin of the Greek Characters, and changes that happen'd in them, to the fourth Century of the common Era.1708 January, The History of the Works of the Learned, volume 10, London: Printed for H. Rhodes, retrieved 31 Oct 2011, page 513

Questions about Current Era

What is Current Era the alternative form of?
Current Era is the alternative form of Common Era.

Words near Current Era in the dictionary

  1. current assets
  2. current balance
  3. current balances
  4. current divider
  5. current dividers
  6. Current Era
  7. current event
  8. current events
  9. current liabilities
  10. current liability
  11. current money

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Current Era (page history and authors); Common Era (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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