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anachronism A Model T Ford putt-putting down the highway at 25 miles per hour was an anachronism by 1940. əˈnækrəˌnɪzəm

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(1) The error of placing a person or thing in the wrong time period. (2) A person or thing that is out of its own time. In Shakespeare's time, playwrights didn't worry much about anachronisms. When Shakespeare saw his plays performed, all the characters, even Romans and Greeks, would have been dressed in the clothes of his own period. Macbeth, which is set in the 11th century, contains anachronistic references to clocks and cannons, which the real Macbeth would have known nothing about. Today, a writer may spend months doing research in order to avoid anachronisms in the historical novel she's working on. Using the second meaning of the word, we could say that manual typewriters and slide rules are anachronisms in these days of computers and calculators, and a person who likes doing things the old-fashioned way might himself be described as an anachronism

word	anachronism
definition	(1) The error of placing a person or thing in the wrong time period. (2) A person or thing that is out of its own time.
eg_sentence	A Model T Ford putt-putting down the highway at 25 miles per hour was an anachronism by 1940.
explanation	In Shakespeare's time, playwrights didn't worry much about anachronisms. When Shakespeare saw his plays performed, all the characters, even Romans and Greeks, would have been dressed in the clothes of his own period. Macbeth, which is set in the 11th century, contains anachronistic references to clocks and cannons, which the real Macbeth would have known nothing about. Today, a writer may spend months doing research in order to avoid anachronisms in the historical novel she's working on. Using the second meaning of the word, we could say that manual typewriters and slide rules are anachronisms in these days of computers and calculators, and a person who likes doing things the old-fashioned way might himself be described as an anachronism
IPA	əˈnækrəˌnɪzəm

Anachronism Person Thing Period Error Placing Wrong Time