post-pyramidaladj.2
/ˌpəʊs(t)pᵻˈramᵻdl/, U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)pəˈræməd(ə)l/, /ˈˌpoʊs(t)ˌpɪrəˈmɪd(ə)l/ Subsequent to the building of the Egyptian pyramids.
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Georgian1745
romancean1804
early modern1817
federal1838
Jacobean1844
post-Reformation1850
pre-Reformation1855
postcolonial1861
post-Renaissance1874
post-conquest1880
post-conquestual1880
Jacobian1883
post-pyramidal1883
pre-industrial1883
early American1895
bow-and-arrow1899
palaeotechnic1904
Renaissancist1932
steam age1941
Carolinian1949
postcolonialist1957
1883 R. A. Proctor Great Pyramid 197 The abomination of desolation to which in our own post-pyramidal days hath been assigned the name of the ‘Fifteen Puzzle’.
1996 Times (Nexis) 22 Feb. Grave-robbers, necessary nihilists in the ‘post-pyramidal’ epoch, profane a series of smaller royal tombs.
2000 Jrnl. Near Eastern Stud. 59 310/2 The Neolithic and Kerma periods are given strong treatment,..while the final phase, Post-Meroitic, Post-Pyramidal Meroitic, or X-Group, is slighted.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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