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BCE

adverb
Saybee-see-EEUS/ˌbi si ˈi/UK/ˌbiː siː ˈiː/

1 meaning of BCE

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    adverbinitialism
    Initialism of Before the Common Era.

    The temple was completed in 447 BCE during a time of unusual prosperity.

    Archaeologists dated the buried settlement to roughly 3000 BCE.

    Note

    This calendar label always follows the year: 399 BCE, never BCE 399. Years count backward toward year 1, and no year zero sits between BCE and the Common Era. A span therefore runs from the larger number to the smaller, as in eclipses recorded from 772 to 481 BCE. The letters can be expanded as Common, Current or Christian Era, and in practice the label serves as a religiously neutral equivalent of BC.

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