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archaics

archaics is the plural of archaic.

Meaning of archaic

Noun

archaic (plural archaics)

  1. (US, capitalized, usually) The prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘Paleo-Indian’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American‐paleolithic’, etc.) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).
    • … Archaic Stage … the stage of migratory hunting and gathering cultures continuing into environmental conditions approximately those of the present.1958, Wiley, Gordon R., and Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, page #107
  2. (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens.
    • [...] prefer the third explanation for the advanced-looking features of Neandertals (Chapter 7) and the Ngandong hominins (Chapter 6), but they have had little to say about the post-Erectine archaics from China.2009, The Human Lineage, page 432

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Questions about archaics

What is archaics the plural of?
Archaics is the plural of archaic.

Words near archaics in the dictionary

  1. archaicized
  2. archaicizes
  3. archaicizing
  4. archaick
  5. archaicness
  6. archaics
  7. archaicy
  8. Archainbaud
  9. archaio-
  10. archaiologies
  11. archaiology

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