Definition of 'anno Domini'
Latin
Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
Word origin
L, in the year of the Lord
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anno Domini in American English
(ˈænou ˈdɑməˌnai, -ˌni, ˈɑːnou)
adverb
See A.D.
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