year of our Lord

Noun

year of our Lord (plural years of our Lord)

1. A year of the Common Era/Christian Era; anno Domini; numbered from the once estimated first year for the birth of Jesus Christ.
   • And for the continuing and preſerving the Calendar or Method of Reckoning, and computing the Days of the Year in the ſame regular Courſe, as near as may be, in all Times coming; be it further enacted by the Authority aforeſaid, That the ſeveral Years of our Lord, One thouſand eight hundred, One...1751, “An Act for regulating the Commencement of the Year; and for correcting the Calendar now in Use”, in Anno Regni Georgii II. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, Vicesimo-Quarto. […]...
   • IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, / I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the National Archives and Records Administration to be affixed. / DONE at the City of Washington this 18th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ninety-two.1992, certification of the Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution, (image)

   Synonyms:

   AC, A.C., a.d., AD, anno Domini, CE, Christian Era, Common Era, year of grace

2. (humorous) Used to emphasize the current year.
   • buying CDs in the year of our Lord 2023?
   • Surely, in the year of our lord 2019, you know who Lizzo is. I mean, even if you don’t think you know, girl—you know.2019 December, Samantha Irby, “Lizzo: TIME's Entertainer of the Year”, in TIME, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2020