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Bce

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Definition

BCE stands for 'Before Common Era' and is used to refer to dates before the year 1 CE.

Synonyms & similar words

bce BC B.C. pre-Christian pre-CE pre-AD antebellum antediluvian archaic old-fashioned primitive ancient prehistoric antediluvial primeval early unrecorded

Example sentences

  1. The dinosaur went extinct millions of years BCE.
  2. The pyramids were built in Egypt around 2500 BCE.
  3. The Roman Empire fell in 476 CE, which means it was around for about 500 years BCE.
  4. The ancient Greeks invented democracy in the 5th century BCE.
  5. The Bronze Age lasted from 3000 BCE to 1200 BCE.

Quotes

  • 'BCE' is a way of avoiding the religious connotations of 'BC', or 'Before Christ', while keeping the same chronological scale. - Carl Sagan
  • The Bible is not the only source of wisdom; the ancient Hindus, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans each had their own scriptures, and they predate the Bible by centuries and even millennia BCE. - Dan Brown
  • The universe is about 13.8 billion years old, meaning that light from the Big Bang has been traveling to us for most of that time, arriving about 380,000 years after the Big Bang itself. That's a long time, even in cosmic terms, but it's still only a fraction of the 13.8 billion years that have passed since the Big Bang. To get that far back, we need to look at the cosmic microwave background radiation, which was emitted about 380,000 years BCE. - Brian Greene

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