ANACHRONISM


Meaning of ANACHRONISM in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

become

Their form of mutual ownership has become an anachronism .

Compound interest and present-value tables have rapidly become anachronisms .

But Johnson may have sensed that he was becoming an anachronism and that a new era of professional management was at hand.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The harvest festival celebrations in the town are an anachronism since almost everyone who lives there nowadays works in an office.

The law on mining is simply an anachronism in this day and age.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Compound interest and present-value tables have rapidly become anachronisms.

He often expressed his conviction that a closed society is an anachronism in a global society.

Isn't the school just an anachronism ?

Kinton was a ridiculous, out-dated anachronism , perhaps, but no more of an anachronism than Mabel herself.

The hostel was named Rameses Villa; a charming anachronism .

The idea of the great house as a pattern for everyone is already an anachronism in the mind of Sir Leicester.

There are anachronisms and incongruities over what properly appertains to a given age or nation.

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