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Another word for primeval

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Adjective

  1. Of or relating to early stages in the evolution of human culture

      1. (Linguistics) Serving as the basis for derived or inflected forms:
      2. Not resulting from conscious thought or deliberation; unconscious or instinctual:
      3. Being a protolanguage:
    See also:

    start

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Another word for primeval

Modifier
  1. See also:

    old

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Sentence Examples

  • they overflow into the extensive clearings made by man in the primeval mountain forests.

  • But he was a profoundly interested observer of affairs at home and among 1 The Assyrian term abubu is used of the great primeval deluge (in the Gilgamesh epic), and also of the local floods common in the country.

  • Bears, wolves, bison, deer, wild turkeys and wild pigeons were common in the primeval forests of Ohio, but they long ago disappeared.

  • Laplace supposed the existence of a primeval nebula which extended so far out as to fill all the space at present occupied by the planets.

  • The three-field system of cropping a patch of land until its fertility is exhausted, and then allowing it to revert to the primeval condition, is still pursued, and both landowners and peasantry suffer from want of capital and lack of agricultural training.

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