Anachronism



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 年代错误;落伍之物

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: probably from Middle Greek anachronismos, from anachronizesthai to be an anachronism, from Late Greek anachronizein to be late, from Greek ana- + chronos time
• Date: 1617
• 1. an error in chronology; especially a chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other
• 2. a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place; especially one from a former age that is incongruous in the present
• 3. the state or condition of being chronologically out of place
• • anachronistic also anachronic adjective
• • anachronistically adverb
• • anachronous adjective
• • anachronously adverb

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