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anachronism - Dictionary definition and meaning for anachronism

ANACHRONISM

  • (noun) an artifact that belongs to another time

    The typewriter is an anachronism today! -added by naila_inlas

  • (noun) a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age

    Jim is an anachronism; he talks in an archaic tongue and dresses himself in clothes belonging to centuries ago. -added by naila_inlas

  • (noun) something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred

    synonyms : misdating , mistiming

    Shakespeare’s plays abound with anachronisms of time and place. -added by naila_inlas

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Selected Mnemonic for anachronism

  • (Tag: Global) ana (out of order, negative sense) + chron (time).. so something not placed correctly with respect to time.

    added by editor1

Mnemonics for anachronism

  • (Tag: ) you know about chronometer- means clock. Anything with "chron" is related to time. Anachronisim-an+chron+ism> here an is used in negative sense> so anachronism means something or someone that is not in its correct time

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  • (Tag: ) Anachronism = Ana + chron (chronology) + ism = A person or thing who is out of chornological order .i.e. Person belongs to earlier time.

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  • (Tag: global) chronous(relating to time)as in synchronous. ana(not)chrounous(in time)

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  • (Tag: Kate and Leopold) If u remember the movie, Leopold was an anachronism!

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  • (Tag: ) picture AN ACT in which an astronaut is being CROWNED = AN ACT CROWNISM

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  • (Tag: ) ANACHRONISM<===> पुराने समय का (pr. \\purane samay ka \\ )[Noun] Example:Monarchy is considered as anachronism in the age of democracy

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  • (Tag: ) The movies Action Replayy talk about anachronism

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