Definition of "circa" []

• In approximately; about: born circa 1900. (preposition)

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• "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."