Definitions for anachronism

anachronism a·nach·ro·nism

Spelling: [uh-nak-ruh-niz-uh m]
IPA: /əˈnæk rəˌnɪz əm/

Anachronism is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 1025 anagrams from letters in anachronism (aachimnnors).

Definitions for anachronism

noun

  1. something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time:
  2. an error in chronology in which a person, object, event, etc., is assigned a date or period other than the correct one:

Origin of anachronism

1640-50; Latin anachronismus Greek anachronismós a wrong time reference, equivalent to anachron(ízein) to make a wrong time reference (see ana-

Examples for anachronism

Superior persons will tell me that Wallace is an anachronism.

A vestige, an anachronism, handed down from centuries before.

These days, says another former top studio executive, puts are an anachronism.

He is truly a prodigy of a man, and, so far as to-day is concerned, an anachronism.

Tell me, dear lady, how does it feel to be married to an anachronism?

All that to us is anachronism was to mediaevals merely Eternity.

An anachronism I was, and an anachronism I must continue to the end of the chapter.

This constant introduction of Pasquino must not be taken as involving any anachronism.

What an anachronism that word "carpet-bag" has become, by the way!

Who could be troubled by the anachronism in the book being of modern shape?

Word Value for anachronism
Scrable

18

Words with friends

21

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