BC
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
AdverbEdit
BC (not comparable)
Usage notesEdit
- The Chicago Manual of Style as well as most house styles require placing the AD before the number of the year and BC after, although in casual use either abbreviation can be found in either place.
- Some use BCE, for "Before the Common Era", which is more secular in nature, to avoid potential Christian bias.
- Often written in small caps.
SynonymsEdit
AntonymsEdit
- a.d., AD, A.D. (anno Domini, Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord); CE (Christian Era, Common Era, Current Era)
TranslationsEdit
before Christ
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Proper nounEdit
BC
- British Columbia, a Canadian province.
- Baja California, a Mexican state.
- Initialism of Boston College.
Usage notesEdit
- (British Columbia): "B.C." is the customary abbreviation of British Columbia as used in case citations; see e.g. The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Nineteenth Edition (2010), "Geographical Terms: Australian states and Canadian provinces and territories", Table T10.2, page 438.
Derived termsEdit
NounEdit
BC (countable and uncountable, plural BCs)
- birth control
- (chemistry) Initialism of benzalkonium chloride.
- (US, navy) battlecruiser, a type of warship.
- (computer science) Initialism of backward compatibility.
- This would be a BC-breaking change.
AnagramsEdit
PortugueseEdit
Proper nounEdit
BC m
- Initialism of Banco Central.
RomanianEdit
Proper nounEdit
BC