Christian Era

English

Alternative forms

• CE (abbreviation)

Proper noun

the Christian Era

1. The current date era beginning approximately 2000 years ago in the Gregorian calendar, based on the (assumed) birth of Jesus Christ.

Translations

calendrical system

• French: ère chrétienne (fr) f, ère commune (fr) f ("Common Era")
• German: christliche Zeitrechnung (de) f, gängige Zeitrechnung (de) f, dionysische Zeitrechnung (de) f
• Russian: христиа́нская э́ра f (xristiánskaja éra), на́ша э́ра f (náša éra) ("our era"), но́вая э́ра f (nóvaja éra) ("new era")
• Thai: คริสต์ศก (krít-sòk), คริสต์ศักราช (th) (krít-sàk-gà-ràat)
• Welsh: Oed Grist m

References

• Common Era on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “Christian Era”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “Christian Era”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "Christian Era" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.