Definitions for pre-Columbian

pre-Columbian pre-Co·lum·bi·an

Spelling: [pree-kuh-luhm-bee-uh n]
IPA: /ˌpri kəˈlʌm bi ən/

Pre-Columbian is a 13 letter English word.

You can make 2186 anagrams from letters in pre-Columbian (-abceilmnopru).

Definitions for pre-Columbian

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  1. of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus:

Origin of pre-Columbian

First recorded in 1885-90

Examples for pre-Columbian

In pre-Columbian America corn was the only cultivated cereal.

The importance, for the history of pre-Columbian civilization, of these discoveries cannot be overestimated.

He was as primitive as the aborigines of the pre-Columbian period.

One of the largest sites of pre-Columbian Mayan ruins, Tikal was once one of the most important cities in the Mayan world.

This is but one of the many survivals of the ancient pre-Columbian religion found among this people.

It is, indeed, possible that the skeleton may be pre-Columbian.

There still exist in Yucatan the diminishing remnants of the most civilised nation of the pre-Columbian epoch of our continent.

It is apparent that baskets of open construction were employed as sieves in pre-Columbian as well as in post-Columbian times.

pre-Columbian book, see Mexican.Prehistoric background of the book, 79-81.

These commercial currents are of very ancient, probably pre-Columbian origin.

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