Definitions for primeval
praɪˈmi vəlprimeval

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. aboriginal, primal, primeval, primaeval, primordialadjective

   having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state

   "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. primevaladjective

   Belonging to the first ages.

2. primevaladjective

   Primary; original.

3. primevaladjective

   Primitive.

4. Etymology: From primevous + -al. Further, primevous, from primaevus, from primus + aevum; see prime and age.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Primeval, Primevousadjective

   Original; such as was at first.

   Etymology: primævus, Lat.

   Immortal dove,
   Thou with almighty energy did’st move
   On the wild waves, incumbent did’st display
   Thy genial wings, and hatch primeval day. Richard Blackmore.

   All the parts of this great fabrick change;
   Quit their old stations and primeval frame,
   And lose their shape, their essence, and their name. Matthew Prior.

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1. primeval

   Primeval generally refers to the earliest ages or the first or earliest period of something, especially in the history of the world. This term implies to primitive, ancient, or prehistoric times.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Primevaladjective

   belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man

2. Etymology: [L. primaevus; primus first + aevum age. See Prime, a., and Age.]

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1. Primeval

   Primeval is a British science fiction Thriller Drama television programme produced for ITV by Impossible Pictures. Created by Adrian Hodges and Tim Haines, who previously created the Walking with... documentary series. Primeval follows a team of scientists tasked with investigating the appearance of temporal anomalies across Great Britain through which prehistoric and futuristic creatures enter the present, as well as trying to prevent end-of-the-world scenarios from occurring. First broadcast in the UK on 10 February 2007, it has since expanded to an international audience. Overall reception of the programme was positive during the first and second series, maintaining a 25% audience share in the United Kingdom during both series to date. Before it was broadcast on 9 August 2008 on BBC America, the programme received generally positive reaction from American critics as well. The third series, which ITV announced on 30 January 2008, began on 28 March 2009. In the US, series 3 premiered on 16 May 2009 on BBC America. On 29 September 2009, it was announced that a deal had been struck between ITV, BBC Worldwide, Watch, Impossible Pictures and the German broadcaster ProSieben to produce two new series of the show for transmission in 2011.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Primeval

   prī-mē′val, adj. belonging to the first ages: original: primitive.—adv. Primē′vally. [L. primævus—primus, first, ævum, an age.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of primeval in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of primeval in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of primeval in a Sentence

1. Dante Alighieri:

   Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

2. Paul Davies:

   Recent discoveries about the primeval cosmos oblige us to accept that the expanding universe has been set up in its motion with a cooperation of astonishing precision.

3. Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy:

   Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

4. Alistair McLean:

   Sometimes, the dogs start howling when the aurora appears here, it's so primeval, it sends shivers down your spine.

5. Michael Oakeshott:

   As civilized human beings, we are the inheritors, neither of an inquiry about ourselves and the world, nor of an accumulating body of information, but of a conversation, begun in the primeval forests and extended and made more articulate in the course of centuries. It is a conversation which goes on both in public and within each of ourselves.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=primeval
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Primeval
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=primeval
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/primeval
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=primeval
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=primeval