Definition of anachronism Anachronism
/ʌnæˈkɹʌnɪˌzʌm/ - [unakrunizum] - a•nach•ro•nism
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What does anachronism mean?
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NounPlural: anachronisms |
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| anachronism - something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | ||
| mistiming, misdating | ||
| timekeeping the act or process of determining the time | ||
| anachronism - an artifact that belongs to another time | ||
| artefact, artifact a man-made object taken as a whole | ||
| anachronism - a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age | ||
| unusual person, anomaly (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun) | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- anachronism (n.)
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.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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anachronism
an-a′kron-izm, n. an error in regard to time, whereby a thing is assigned to an earlier or to a later age than it belongs to: anything out of keeping with the time.—v.t. Ana′chronise.—n. Ana′chronist.—adjs. Anachronist′ic, Ana′chronous.—adv. Ana′chronously. [Gr. ana, backwards, chronos, time.]
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🔤- anachronism, noun, singular of anachronisms.
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