AUC

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adverb

According to the Roman era, which reckons the number of years passed from the foundation of the city of Rome by Romulus, now usually taken as 753 bc.

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Meanings

AUC1

adverbAUC (not comparable)

alternative ab urbe condita · alternative ab Urbe condita

  1. historicalnot comparableAccording to the Roman era, which reckons the number of years passed from the foundation of the city of Rome by Romulus, now usually taken as 753 bc.

    The Senate (A.U.C. 514) decreed that the eldest son alone should bear his father's praenomen.

    1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xv

AUC2

nounAUC (plural AUCs)

plural AUCs

  1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of area under curve (the area under the curve in a plot of concentration of drug in blood plasma against time).

AUC3

proper noun
  1. historicalUnited Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, a paramilitary group active from 1997 to 2006.

    The payments continued after the U.S. government designated the AUC as a foreign terrorist organization in September 2001.

    2007 March 19, Andy Sullivan, “Chiquita pleads guilty to Colombia terror payments”, in Reuters

AUC4

proper noun
  1. abbreviationinitialismbusinessInitialism of assets under custody.

Origin

AUC · adverb

  1. LatinAUC
  2. EnglishAUC

From Latin AUC, (anno) ab urbe condita (“from the founding of the city”) or anno urbis conditae (“in the year of the city's having been founded”), both in reference to Rome's legendary establishment by Romulus. The era was not in common use by the Romans, who preferred dating by the years' consuls, but Roman historians give several dates for this era. The one most commonly used in the present day is Varro's, which dates from the third year of the sixth Olympiad (753 bc).

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AUC · noun

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AUC · proper noun

Initialism of Spanish Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia.

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AUC · proper noun

Initialism.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

AUC. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/AUC

MLA

“AUC.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/AUC. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “AUC,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/AUC.

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