Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- prep. In approximately; about: born circa 1900.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- About; at or near a date given, when the exact time is not known: as, circa a. d. 500. Abbreviated circ., ca., or c.
Wiktionary
- prep. approximately, about
GNU Webster's 1913
- prep. Approximately; about; commonly abbreviated
ca. ; -- used especially before dates and numerical measures.
Etymologies
- From Latin circa. (Wiktionary)
- Latin circā, from circum, around (probably on the model of adverbs like intrā, within), from circus, circle; see circle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Last words, for now, go to Chris Stein circa 1978.”
“In her best performance, Joan Fontaine plays a meek woman who falls for a composer (Louis Jordan) in circa 1900 Vienna.”
“The PC crowd moved in circa 1970, and they have been preaching from the “Ugly America” bible ever since.”
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“Here, therefore, Al – Islam at once avoided the deplorable assumption of the Hebrews and the Christians, — an error which has been so injurious to their science and their progress, — of placing their “firstman” in circa B.C. 4000 or somewhat subsequent to the building of the Pyramids: the”
“This is where it all started for me published in Finnish circa 1985, as I was just learning to read.”
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“If a group becomes too popular (say Led Zeppelin circa 1976) they can get a better deal for themselves and reduce the margins of the companies.”
“Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously.”
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“Suppose you're the CEO of a publicly traded record label circa 2000 and Napster is taking off.”
“Another one-album wonder from the Brain label circa early seventies Germany, YATHA SIDHRA came and went in the blink of an eye, in the process leaving behind a curious addition to the Krautrock genre.”
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“700 Hindu Brahmins/Pandits were forcibly converted to Islam during the reign of Sikandar Butshikan sometime in circa 1400 ACE.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘circa’.
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Sue's favorite words
panache, flair, pantaloons, periwinkle, pumpernickel, persnickety, cachet, coquette, élan, iris, ambrosia, keen and 99 more...
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
caballine, cabas, cable, caboched, cabochon, caboose, cabotage, cabré, cabrie, cabriole, cabriolet, cacaesthesia and 1298 more...
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BN
élan, plum, meraki, anthology, midori, alegria, novel, circa, madeleine, felicity, odette, ode
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preposition
Collection of prepositions! Inspired by AWAD week of 3 - 9 Nov 2008.
pace, maugre, ere, circa, chez, about, above, across, after, against, among, around and 24 more...
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i.e., Latin
Latin terms sometimes more commonly known in English by their abbreviations alone.
vice versa, versus, videlicet, vide infra, verbi gratia, voce, pro tempore, per procurationem, pluta paper, post meridiem, paper, opere citato and 14 more...
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It's a date!
date, date palm, dating, save the date, it's a date, radiocarbon dating, uranium-thorium d..., rubidium-strontiu..., date night, date of birth, dateline, double date and 65 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 3027 more... -
mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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je les adore!
fusillade, foal, celestial, abattoir, byzantium, berlin, casablanca, babylon, balkans, albion, avalon, between the devil... and 471 more...
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A Matter Of Time
Favorite time-related words.
vespertine, twilight, gloaming, eftsoon, eventide, dawn, eos, dusk, witching hour, ephemeral, candlemark, autumnal and 122 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 1008 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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random
words I read but don't know
nascent, proxy, desultory, charlatan, churlish, emaciated, gaudy, shill, lurid, frisson, marauding, plunder and 610 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1500 more...
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The Much Avoided Latin-rooted-English...
..because something like 60% of English is based in Latin.
dirge, pudendum, museum, median, hypothesis, liberty, ergo, theater, history, apocrypha, synaesthesia, anodyne and 50 more...
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braggadocio
an addendum or Anhang to Prolagus's list 'The braggadocio recipe'
amoeba, angina, antenna, aria, arnica, audio, aurora, biro, bronco, bubo, cafe, calico and 88 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for circa.
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