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2006-08-02 16:02:07 · 51 answers · asked by Joy M 7 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Not surprised by the answers. To those who said after death, think logically. If B.C. is before Christ and A.D. were to be After Death, what do we designate the years while Jesus was living? If it were After Death, it would only be about year 1973 (give or take a few years.)
2006-08-02 16:15:20 · update #1
By the way; I know that more currently A.D. and B.C. have been replaced with B.C.E. and C.E. But if I say A.D. or B.C. and you know what I mean, I don't give a crap about being "politically correct."
2006-08-02 18:36:48 · update #2
Anno Domini in the year of our Lord
2006-08-02 16:05:05 · answer #1 · answered by Mama R 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Anno Domini. It means "In the years of Our Lord." A lot of people think it means after death, but Jesus was born in 6 or 7 A.D. so that makes after death impossible to fit.
2006-08-02 16:06:57 · answer #2 · answered by ♥ x0o ♥ o0x ♥ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anno Domini
2006-08-02 16:06:04 · answer #3 · answered by J Somethingorother 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A.D. = Anno Domini, Latin for the number of years after the birth of our Lord, therefore, 2006 A.D. is the number of years after the birth of Christ as it is thought that He was "born" in the year '0'.
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2006-08-02 16:12:42 · answer #4 · answered by dustiiart 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anno Domini
2006-08-02 16:05:45 · answer #5 · answered by shifty 1 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Anno Domini The year of the lord! The birth of Jesus of Navarene.
2006-08-02 16:05:36 · answer #6 · answered by single mom 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Anno Domini
2006-08-02 16:05:28 · answer #7 · answered by Ginny Lou the Peachy One 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
CE common era..since most Earthlings are not christian, AD means little to most people of the world. The Chinese, Jews, Muslims and other groups have their own systems for keeping track of the years. Since we have become a global society a common sense of the notion of yearly time was needed so the Latin AD which does mean anno domini, has been changed in most texts for the past 10 yrs to CE. By the way BC has been changed to BCE...before the common era.
2006-08-02 18:23:38 · answer #8 · answered by tichur 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hi!
It means 'anno Domini'... It is Latin for "in the year of the Lord".
btw- in translation, 'anno Domini' is literally "in the year of THE Lord"... not "in the year of our Lord". Though personally, I think "our Lord" sounds better than "the Lord". :)
Also, the 'a' in "anno Domini" is not usually capitalized, but it is allowed to be.
A.D. is used after dates to show a specified number of years passed after the birth of Jesus Christ. So 2000 A.D.means 2000 years after the birth of Jesus.
Best Wishes... T.
2006-08-02 16:05:49 · answer #9 · answered by Theophania 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is actually latin. It stands for Anno Domini.
Anno Domini (Latin: "In the Year of the Lord"), abbreviated as AD or A.D., defines an epoch based on the traditionally-reckoned year of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
2006-08-02 16:07:51 · answer #10 · answered by RangerBob 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anno Domini (Latin: "In the Year of the Lord"), abbreviated as AD or A.D., defines an epoch based on the traditionally-reckoned year of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
2006-08-02 16:06:55 · answer #11 · answered by InfoJunkie 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋