BCE
Pronunciations
BCE | (bee see EE) | listen |
Definitions
adv. Before the Common Era (used in place of B.C.). Steinmetz: "...recently, a new awareness of the Christian character of these abbreviations have led many Jewish writers and editors to replace them with [C.E. And B.C.E.]"
Example Sentences
"The First Temple was destroyed in 586 B.C.E"
Languages of Origin
- English
Who Uses This
- Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
- Non-Jews: (words that have spread outside of Jewish networks)
Regions
- North America
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- Australia / New Zealand
- View More
Dictionaries
- Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
- The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
- Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).
Notes
B.C.E.
Edit Something missing from this entry? Inaccurate? Feel free to suggest an edit.