anachronism : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: anachronism	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
anachronism n something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred Synonym(s): anachronism, mistiming, misdating an artifact that belongs to another time a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Anachronism \Anach"ronism\, n. [Gr. [?], fr. [?] to refer to a wrong time, to confound times; [?] + [?] time: cf. F. anachronisme.] A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.