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noun
an error in chronologyespecially: a chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other
found several anachronisms in the movie
a person or a thing that is chronologically out of placeespecially: one from a former age that is incongruous in the present
By the time I reached my teens, the housewife was an anachronism, replaced on television by the perky, glamorous, character of That Girl, Marlo Thomas, who kept her boyfriend at bay in the interest of pursuing her acting career. —Joyce Maynard
the state or condition of being chronologically out of place
probably from Middle Greek anachronismos, from anachronizesthai to be an anachronism, from Late Greek anachronizein to be late, from Greek ana- + chronos time
The first known use of anachronism was in 1617
anaesthesia, anaesthetic
anaerobicadjective
living, active, or occurring in the absence of free oxygen
anaerobic bacteria
anaerobenoun
an anaerobic organism
anaemia
anaemia
anadromousadjective
traveling up rivers from the sea to breed
anadromous shad and salmon
anacondanoun
a large South American snake that crushes its prey in its coilsalso: any large snake that crushes its prey like an anaconda
anachronismnoun
the placing of persons, events, objects, or customs in times to which they do not belong
a person or a thing out of place in time and especially the present time
the state or condition of being out of place in time
1 This seemingly anachronous reference to Babylon reproduces text from the Weidner Chronicle.
对巴比伦的这种看似不合时宜的引用,重现了《韦德纳编年史》中的文本。
2 I like them to stalk, like the ghosts that they are—our modern passioning seems a bit anachronous in them.
3 The bill was, however, returned “Ignoramus,” and the use of the name was probably anachronous.
4 This superstition of witchcraft has here been strong in all eras, but it is at last becoming extinct; cretinism, as anachronous and as horrible,—a fact, not a superstition,—remains unaccounted for and unlessened.
5 The "Moon of Delight" is God, eternal Polaris, anachronous never.