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Definition: Pre-Columbian |
Pre-ColumbianAdjective1. Predating Christopher Columbus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pre-Columbian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Crosswords: Pre-Columbian |
| English words defined with "pre-Columbian": corn ♦ Indian corn ♦ maize ♦ Zea mays. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The term Pre-Columbian is used especially often in discussions of the great indigenous civilizations of the New World, such as those of MesoAmerica (e.g. the Aztec and Maya) and the Andes (Inca, Moche, etc).
Also see under Pre-Columbian transatlantic contacts, Pre-Columbian population
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pre-Columbian."
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Pre-Columbian ruins of Sacsahuamán fortress, Cuzco City, Peru. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Peru | During pre-Columbian times, Peru was one of the major centers of artistic expression in America, where pre-Inca cultures, such as Chavin, Paracas, Wari, Nazca, Chimu, and Tiahuanaco developed high-quality pottery, textiles, jewelry, and sculpture. (references) |
Paraguay | Pre-Columbian civilization in the fertile, wooded region that is now Paraguay consisted of numerous seminomadic, Guarani-speaking tribes of Indians, who were recognized for their fierce warrior traditions. (references) | |
Dominica | Dominica is the only island in the eastern Caribbean to retain some of its pre-Columbian population--the Carib Indians--about 3,000 of whom live on the island's east coast. (references) | |
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| "Pre-Columbian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pre-Columbian" is used about 32 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% | 32 | 61,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "pre-Columbian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 前"伦"亚. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | předkolumbický. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 미국. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | e-columbianpray старинный (ancient, old, old time, old world, old-time), доколумбовый. (various references) prekolumbijski. (various references) förekolumbiska. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Pre-Columbian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: precolumbian. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-i-l-m-n-o-p-r-u" | |
-2 letters: complainer, republican. | |
-3 letters: binocular, bromelain, colubrine, columbine, incurable, numerical, penumbral, policeman, porcelain, prolamine, pronuclei. | |
-4 letters: acrolein, aerobium, albicore, amelcorn, apocrine, baculine, beclamor, bioclean, bouncier, braciole, bromelin, cabriole, caponier, capriole, carbinol, clumpier, coinable, colinear, columnar, combiner, compiler, complain, complier, compline, copremia, cornmeal, coumarin, incumber, manciple, manicure, nobelium, olibanum, opercula, panbroil, peculiar, pelorian, penumbra, picloram. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-i-l-m-n-o-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: unproblematic. | |
+3 letters: uncompromisable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 65 2D 43 6F 6C 75 6D 62 69 61 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 00101101 01000011 01101111 01101100 01110101 01101101 01100010 01101001 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e - C o l u m b i a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 002D 0043 006F 006C 0075 006D 0062 0069 0061 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50847115378178877968756780 |
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