What is the meaning of the word 'anachronism'

anachronism - something or someone misplaced in time


Some sentence examples which use the word 'anachronism'

  • In ordinary times, in order to dissolve an anachronism and to cause it to vanish, one has only to make it spell out the date.
  • A cloister, caught in the very act of asceticism, in the very heart of the city of '89 and of 1830 and of 1848, Rome blossoming out in Paris, is an anachronism.'
  • Monarchy is considered as anachronism in the age of democracy.
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