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prebendaryship |
prebendate |
prebendship |
prebronchial |
precalculate |
precambrian
| precambrian aeon
| precambrian eon
| precambrian period
| precancerous
| precant
precambrian
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun precambrian has 1 sense
- precambrian(n = noun.time) precambrian aeon, precambrian eon, precambrian period - the eon following the Hadean time and preceding the Phanerozoic eon; from about 3,800 million years ago until 544 million years ago; Array has parts: proterozoic, proterozoic aeon, proterozoic eon, archaeozoic, archaeozoic aeon, archean, archean aeon, archean eon, archeozoic, archeozoic eon
is a kind of aeon, eon
OXFORD DICTIONARY
precambrian, adj. & n. Geol.
--adj. of or relating to the earliest era of geological time from the formation of the earth to the first forms of life.
--adj. of or relating to the earliest era of geological time from the formation of the earth to the first forms of life.
Usage
Cf. Appendix II.
--n. this era.
--n. this era.
ROGET THESAURUS
precambrian
Oldness
N oldness, age, antiquity, cobwebs of antiquity, maturity, decline, decay, senility, seniority, eldership, primogeniture, archaism, thing of the past, relic of the past, megatherium, Sanskrit, tradition, prescription, custom, immemorial usage, common law, old, ancient, antique, of long standing, time-honored, venerable, elder, eldest, firstborn, prime, primitive, primeval, primigenous, paleolontological, paleontologic, paleoanthropological, paleoanthropic, paleolithic, primordial, primordinate, aboriginal, diluvian, antediluvian, protohistoric, prehistoric, antebellum, colonial, precolumbian, patriarchal, preadamite, paleocrystic, fossil, paleozoolical, paleozoic, preglacial, antemundane, archaic, classic, medieval, Pre-Raphaelite, ancestral, black-letter, immemorial, traditional, prescriptive, customary, whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contr, inveterate, rooted, antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete, out of date, out of fashion, out of it, stale, old-fashioned, behind the age, old-world, exploded, gone out, gone by, passe, run out, senile, time worn, crumbling, secondhand, old as the hills, old as Methuselah, old as Adam, old as history, Archeozoic, Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic, Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Tertiary, Paleogene, Neocene, Quaternary, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent, since the world was made, since the year one, since the days of Methuselah, vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.
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