BC
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
BC/biːˈsiː/
▶abbreviation
- 1 before Christ (placed after a date, indicating that it is before the Christian era).
- 2 British Columbia (in official postal use).
'BC' also found in these Oxford entries:
Achaemenid
- AD
- alcaic
- anabasis
- Aramaean
- Aramaic
- Archimedean
- Aristotelian
- Aryan
- Attalid
- AUC
- Brahmanism
- Buddhism
- Capsian
- Chalcolithic
- Ciceronian
- Confucianism
- Croesus
- Cycladic
- Cyrenaic
- Dorian
- Epicurean
- Essene
- Etruscan
- exilic
- geometric
- Hallstatt
- Han
- Hanukkah
- Helladic
- Hellenistic
- Hippocratic oath
- Hittite
- Homeric
- Horatian
- Hurrian
- Indo-Aryan
- Julian
- Maecenas
- marathon
- mausoleum
- Mede
- Metonic cycle
- Minoan
- Nebuchadnezzar
- Old Latin
- Old Persian
- Oscan
- Pahlavi
