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primeval

English

Alternative forms

  • primaeval, primæval

Etymology

From primevous +? -al. Further, primevous, from Latin primaevus (in the first or earliest period of life), from primus (first) + aevum (time, age); see prime and age.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: "pr?m'?v?l, IPA(key): /?p?a??mi.v?l/

Adjective

primeval (comparative more primeval, superlative most primeval)

  1. belonging to the first ages
  2. primary; original
  3. primitive
    • 1957, H. E. Bates, Death of a Huntsman
      If their views were entrancing their sanitation was primeval; if they possessed stables they were also next to the gas-works; if their gardens were delightful there were odours suspicious of mice in the bedrooms.

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Further reading

  • primeval in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • primeval in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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