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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred;
[syn: anachronism, mistiming, misdating]

2. an artifact that belongs to another time;

3. a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Anachronism \An*ach"ro*nism\, n. [Gr. 'anachronismo`s, fr. 'anachroni`zein to refer to a wrong time, to confound times; 'ana` + chro`nos 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

anachronism n 1: something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred [syn: anachronism, mistiming, misdating] 2: an artifact that belongs to another time 3: a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

20 Moby Thesaurus words for "anachronism": antedate, antedating, anticipation, defect, faux pas, flaw, gaffe, metachronism, misapplication, misdate, misdating, mistake, mistiming, parachronism, postdate, postdating, prochronism, prolepsis, slip, solecism