anachronism
uh na kruh ni zuhm
- n something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
- n an artifact that belongs to another time
- n a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age
- In this day of bullet trains and metro the tramcar appears to be ana anachronism.
- The controversies surrounding some of the recent gubernatorial appointments to vacant Senate seats make it painfully clear that such appointments are an anachronism that must end.
- Before a Lyons court stood the most famous collaborationist yet brought to trial in Francebearded, brilliant Charles Maurras, political anachronism, polemicist, poet, member of.