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单词 pre-columbian
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pre-Columbian
pre-Columbian adj.
Brit. /ˌpriːkəˈlʌmbɪən/
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U.S. /ˌprikəˈləmbiən/
existing or occurring in America before the arrival there of Columbus; of or designating the period before his arrival.
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1854 National Mag. Sept. 263/1 A collection of treatises has been compiled to discuss the original peopling of America, the pre-Columbian discoveries, the Canaanite, Phoenician, and Scythian immigrations [etc.].
1870 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. & Statist. Soc. 2 ii. 43 Do the manuscripts which describe these voyages belong to the pre-Columbian age?
1929 Amer. Archaeol. 31 553 We know sufficient to assign mound works north of the Ohio to pre-Columbian times.
1994 New Scientist 5 Mar. 52/2 Silverman advocates the ‘s’ spelling for the Pre-Columbian culture of Nasca, and the ‘z’ for the modern town of Nazca.
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