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A.D.

A.D.

 
pronunciation:
eI di
part of speech: abbreviation
definition: after the birth of Jesus Christ. A.D. is an abbreviation for anno domini, which means "in the year of the Lord" in Latin. Something that happened in A.D. 50 happened fifty years after the birth of Christ.