Definitions for fossil

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fossil fos·sil

Spelling: [fos-uh l]

IPA: /ˈfɒs əl/

Fossil is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in fossil (filoss).

Definitions for fossil

noun

1. any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton, footprint, etc.
2. a markedly outdated or old-fashioned person or thing.
3. a linguistic form that is archaic except in certain restricted contexts, as nonce in for the nonce, or that follows a rule or pattern that is no longer productive, as the sentence So be it.

adjective

1. of the nature of a fossil:
2. belonging to a past epoch or discarded system; antiquated:

Origin of fossil

1555-65; Latin fossilis dug up (Cf. fodere to dig); replacing earlier fossile French

Examples for fossil

If he turns his attention to fossil animals, he is a palaeontologist.

The black market trade in fossils stolen from the richest Cretaceous fossil locality in the world has prompted a crackdown.

No, not a vestage of the fossil is there, not a skull, not a shinbone.

They believe that companies trafficking in fossil fuels will eventually face financial problems.

But when it comes to energy, divestment from coal or fossil fuels is much more symbolic—and not very meaningful.

It was no more fossil than I am; but they call it fossil when it is dug up.

Under Mongolian law, any fossil specimen found in the Gobi Desert must stay in the possession of a Mongolian institution.

Their base is Copal, a fossil, resinous substance of vegetable origin.

Instead of which the fossil was what he always had been—just one too many.

And given the current glut in fossil fuels, it might even be a better economic bet to wait a few years.