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[ pree-kuh-luhm-bee-uhn ] / ˌpri kəˈlʌm bi ən /
adjectiveof or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians. Origin of pre-ColumbianFirst recorded in 1885–90 Words nearby pre-Columbianprecocious puberty, precocity, precognition, precollagenous fiber, precolonial, pre-Columbian, precompose, preconceive, preconception, preconceptual stage, preconcert Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for pre-ColumbianOne of the largest sites of pre-Columbian Mayan ruins, Tikal was once one of the most important cities in the Mayan world. There Are Bugs in Your Coffee and Other Things I Learned in Antigua, Guatemala|William O’Connor|January 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST As yet, however, no examples of wooden doors have been seen in any of the pre-Columbian ruins. A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola|Victor Mindeleff and Cosmos Mindeleff These commercial currents are of very ancient, probably pre-Columbian origin. The Argentine Republic|Pierre Denis The evidences that Northmen were in Massachusetts in pre-Columbian days are drawn from two sources, geography and archæology. Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, December 1899|Various
There still exist in Yucatan the diminishing remnants of the most civilised nation of the pre-Columbian epoch of our continent. The American Egypt|Channing Arnold The pre-Columbian Americans, and especially the Mexicans, believed in butterfly souls and butterfly deities. Ancient Man in Britain|Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie
British Dictionary definitions for pre-Columbian
adjectiveof or relating to the Americas before they were discovered by Columbus Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |