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Palaeolithic

Definition: Palaeolithic

Palaeolithic

Adjective

1. 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: Palaeolithic

Synonym: paleolithic (adj). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Palaeolithic

DomainTitle

Books

  • India an Archaeological History: Palaeolithic Beginnings to Early Historic Foundations (reference)

  • More Than Meets the Eye: Studies on Upper Palaeolithic Diversity in the Near East (reference)

  • Multicultural Japan : Palaeolithic to Postmodern (reference)

  • Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology in the Peoples Republic of China (reference)

  • Prelude to history; a study of human origins and palaeolithic savagery (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Palaeolithic

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%6442,009

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Palaeolithic

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

palaeolithic

7

art palaeolithic

5

age palaeolithic

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Palaeolithic

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.

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Anagrams: Palaeolithic

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Palaeolithic


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 61 6C 61 65 6F 6C 69 74 68 69 63

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100001 01101100 01100001 01100101 01101111 01101100 01101001 01110100 01101000 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

506778677181787586747569

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INDEX

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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