year of our Lord
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8.2
- noun
- Formal
:
año del Señor
- The document was signed on the first day of January in the year of our Lord 2000.
- year of our Lord 1777
- year of our Lord five hundred
- October, the year of our Lord
Examples
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By lawful order of Damien Finch, Master Witchfinder, on this day, October twenty-eight in the year of our Lord two thousand thirty-seven.
Fiction book (1999) -
The Magna Carta was sealed at Runnymede on the 15th of June in the year of our Lord 1215.
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the Year of our Lord *1348*
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- I was born in the ninth month... of September on the fifth day of the year of our Lord, 1968.
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30 May, in the year of our Lord, 1777
Fiction book (1991) -
This is the year of our Lord 2045.
Fiction book (2001) -
"So begins A Tale of Two Cities in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five."
Blog text (28) -
And it came to pass that on Sunday, October 7, in the Year of our Lord 2012, preachers in America were organized by politicians.
Blog text (1) -
In the year of our Lord, 1314, patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn.
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In the year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
A year counted since the birth of Jesus, used in formal or historical dates
Marks a year as after the birth of Jesus, often written AD
Put before a year to show it is after the birth of Jesus
Put before a year to show the date is after Jesus's birth
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase literally combines 'year' with 'our Lord' (a capitalized reference to God), so a learner can infer it refers to a year associated with the Christian Lord and thus to a Christian dating system; this gives a clear compositional clue. However, the conventional meaning as a formal label for the AD/Anno Domini calendar and its historical/legal usage is culturally specific and somewhat archaic, so a B1 learner who only knows the constituent words may not fully grasp the conventional dating sense without extra cultural/historical knowledge.
Etymology
The phrase year of our Lord comes from Christians who dated years from the birth of Jesus. Long ago, church writers and officials put year of our Lord before the year number, so today it means naming a year in the Christian calendar, often written 'AD'.