See anachronism on Wiktionary
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"text": "Indeed, that Hall of the Upper Temple is a sight not uninteresting, and with the exception of some trifling improvements and anachronisms which have been introduced into the practice there, a man may sit down and fancy that he joins in a meal of the seventeenth century.",
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "person or thing which seems to belong to a different time",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "anacronismo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "anaxronízm",
"sense": "person or thing which seems to belong to a different time",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "анахрони́зм"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "perežítok",
"sense": "person or thing which seems to belong to a different time",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пережи́ток"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "person or thing which seems to belong to a different time",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "анакронѝзам"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "person or thing which seems to belong to a different time",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "anakronìzam"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "person or thing which seems to belong to a different time",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "anacronismo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "person or thing which seems to belong to a different time",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anacronía"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "person or thing which seems to belong to a different time",
"word": "zaman aşımı"
}
],
"word": "anachronism"
}
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