before christ

1. 1.

   before the Christian era; used following dates before the supposed year Christ was born

   “in 200 BC”

   SynonymsBCB.C.

Questions about before christ

What does before christ mean?

before christ means "before the Christian era; used following dates before the supposed year Christ was born".

What is another word for before christ?

Close synonyms include BC, B.C.. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is before christ a common word?

before christ is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.