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Related topics: Chronology
AD British English ; A.D. American English
TMC
Anno Domini
used to show that a date is a particular number of years after the birth of Christ [= CE; ↪ BC]:
the first century AD
54 AD
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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