Usually means: Before Common Era, historical dating.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. BCE: Merriam-Webster
  2. BCE: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. B.C.E, BCE: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. BCE: Collins English Dictionary
  5. B.C.E, BCE: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bce, bce: Wordnik
  7. B.C.E, BCE: Wiktionary
  8. BCE: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. B.C.E: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. B.C.E, BCE: Dictionary.com
  11. B.C.E, BCE (disambiguation), BCE, BCe, Bce: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. BCE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  13. b.c.e, bce: FreeDictionary.org
  14. b.c.e, bce: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. B.C.E, BCE: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. bce: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  17. BCE: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. B.C.E, BCE: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BCE: Investopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BCE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. BCE: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  3. B.C.E: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BCE: Urban Dictionary

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adverb:  (chronology) Initialism of Before Common Era (Before the Common Era, before Common Era, before the Common Era), Before Current Era (Before the Current Era, before current era, before the current era), or before Christian Era.

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