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单词 dawn man
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dawn mann.

Brit. /ˈdɔːn man/, U.S. /ˈdɔn ˈmæn/, /ˈdɑn ˈmæn/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dawn n., man n.1
Etymology: < dawn n. + man n.1, after Eoanthropus n. Compare slightly earlier Piltdown n.
Palaeontology.
Usually with capital initials: the (fraudulent) Piltdown man, ‘ Eoanthropus’. Also: any early extinct hominid.
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1912 S. Smith Woodward in Manch. Guardian 21 Dec. 5/1 For the genus represented in the skull I proposed the name Eoanthropus (‘man of dawn’).]
1913 Manch. Guardian 10 May 8/1 The remains of the ‘Dawn-man’, as he was happily termed under the rather barbarous term Evanthropus [sic] Dawsonii.
1913 Nature 2 Oct. 131/2 It is quite certain that they [sc. the Piltdown skull fragments] afford the first evidence we have obtained of a hitherto unknown group of the Hominidae so fundamentally distinct from all the early fossil men found in Europe as to be worthy of generic distinction—a ‘dawn-man’ of a very primitive and generalised type.
1914 Amer. Museum Jrnl. 14 191/1 All agree that the Dawn Man dates at the very latest from the Old Stone Age.
1944 H. G. Wells '42 to '44 190 The breeding season of the Dawn-Men may have been an annual affair.
1975 W. Meredith Hazard, Painter in Partial Accts. (1987) 109 Dawn men watch in awe from the bushes this blood cousin in a world of crusty things.
2002 U.S. News & World Rep. 26 Aug. 69/1 Dubbed ‘Dawson's Dawn Man’, Eoanthropus dawsoni didn't have a lot of competition at the time.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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