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Definition: Palaeolithic |
PalaeolithicAdjective1. Of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic); "paleolithic artifacts". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "palaeolithic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references) |
Synonym: PalaeolithicSynonym: paleolithic (adj). (additional references) |
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| "Palaeolithic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Palaeolithic" is used about 64 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 64 | 42,009 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
palaeolithic | 7 |
art palaeolithic | 5 |
age palaeolithic | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "palaeolithic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i paleolitit (paleolithic). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | палеолитен. (various references) | |
Dutch | Paleolithicum (Paleolithic). (various references) | |
Esperanto | Paleolitiko (Paleolithic). (various references) | |
Greek | παλαιολιθικόσ (paleolithic). (various references) | |
Hungarian | paleolit (paleolithic). (various references) | |
Italian | paleolitico (paleolithic). (various references) | |
Manx | shenn-chlaghagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alaeolithicpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | paleografia (paleography, paleolithic). (various references) | |
Romanian | paleolitic (paleolithic). (various references) | |
Russian | палеолитический (paleolithic). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | paleolitski. (various references) | |
Spanish | paleolítico (paleolithic), paleográfico (paleographic, paleolithic). (various references) | |
Swedish | paleolitisk. (various references) | |
Turkish | paleolitik dönem, yontma taş devrine ait (paleolithic), yontma taş devri (paleolithic). (various references) | |
Ukranian | палеолітичний (paleolithic). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-i-l-l-o-p-t" | |
-2 letters: apolitical, apothecial, philatelic. | |
-3 letters: aliphatic, apothecia, caliphate, echolalia, political. | |
-4 letters: achillea, allocate, allopath, alopecia, apholate, caliphal, calliope, elliptic, eolithic, haptical, heliacal, helicopt, hepatica, hoplitic, localite, palliate, poetical, potlache, teocalli. | |
-5 letters: acaleph, achiote, acholia, aloetic, aphelia, aphetic, aphotic, aplitic, calathi, capital, capitol, chaetal, challie, challot, chapati, chaplet, cholate, ciliate, coalpit, collate, ectopia, epochal, ethical, haplite, helical, hellcat, hepatic, hilltop, hoplite, lacteal, lochial, ophitic, optical, patella, peacoat, pelitic, phallic, placate, plicate, polecat, politic, potiche, potlach, taphole, tapioca, thallic, thiolic, tilapia, topical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 6C 61 65 6F 6C 69 74 68 69 63 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-.. .- . --- .-.. .. - .... .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01101100 01100001 01100101 01101111 01101100 01101001 01110100 01101000 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a l a e o l i t h i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 006C 0061 0065 006F 006C 0069 0074 0068 0069 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)506778677181787586747569 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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