bce

IPA: bis

Root Word: BCE

(chronology) Initialism of Before Common Era (Before the Common Era, before Common Era, before the Common Era), Before Current Era (Before the Current Era, before current era, before the current era), or before Christian Era.

Examples of "bce" in Sentences

The article already had BCE in it.
By 500 BCE it had gone into decline.
At least not prior to 600 BCE or so.
BCE is an attempt to deny this truth.
BC and not BCE is used in category names.
CE and BCE are not widely understood in Britain.
BCE, contemporaneous with Mahavira and the Buddha.
It is an Egyptian execration text of the 17th century BCE.
Vedic times are now thought be from 3300 BCE down to 1800 BCE .
Chaeremon was an Athenian dramatist of the first half of the fourth century BCE.