Definitions for primaeval

primaeval pri·mae·val

Spelling: [prahy-mee-vuh l]
IPA: /praɪˈmi vəl/

Primaeval is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 456 anagrams from letters in primaeval (aaeilmprv).

Definitions for primaeval

adjective

  1. primeval.
  2. of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world:

Origin of primaeval

1765-75; Latin prīmaev(us) young (prīm(us) prime + aev(um) age + -us adj. suffix) + -al1

Examples for primaeval

The yearly phenomenon brought home to the minds of the Babylonians, a picture of primaeval chaos.

Before leaving the names, it may be added that, of the primaeval deities, Anshar and Kishar are obviously Sumerian in form.

He had begun a series of paintings on the theme of primaeval man.

The massing together of the primaeval waters completes the picture of chaos in the cuneiform account.

Another theory appears to have existed according to which the gods were contemporaneous with primaeval chaos.

But in the middle of her speech she falls into a primaeval doze of some eighteen hundred years.

The ancient bardic lore and primaeval traditions were refined to suit the new and sensitive poetic taste.

The Hniflung hoard is also supposed to have consisted of the treasures of one band of primaeval artists, the Iwaldings.

The primaeval serpent-worship is perpetuated in the reverence paid to traditional village-snakes.

But I can help them to an explanation of what became of these primaeval men-of-arms.

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