ANACHRONISM
\anˈakɹənˌɪzəm], \anˈakɹənˌɪzəm], \a_n_ˈa_k_ɹ_ə_n_ˌɪ_z_ə_m]\
Definitions of ANACHRONISM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.
By Oddity Software
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A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.
By Noah Webster.
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An error in placing events according to time; the placing of something in a wrong time; as, a clock in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, is an anachronism.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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An error in regard to time, whereby a thing is assigned to an earlier or to a later age than what it belongs to.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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