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Cro-Magnons

Cro-Magnons is the plural of Cro-Magnon.

Meaning of Cro-Magnon

Noun

Cro-Magnon (plural Cro-Magnons or Cro-Magnon)

  1. The earliest known form of modern human (Homo sapiens) in Europe, dating from the late Paleolithic.
    • The Cro-Magnons may have been one important step beyond the Neanderthals in social organization.[…]That the Cro-Magnons and the Neanderthals encountered each other is probable. There seems to be no more than a five-thousand-year interval between the general occupation of home sites by the...1994, Seymour W. Itzkoff, The Decline of Intelligence in America: A Strategy for National Renewal, Greenwood Publishing Group (Praeger Publishers), page 14
  2. (derogatory) A backward and stupid person, a knuckle-dragger or troglodyte.

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Questions about Cro-Magnons

What is Cro-Magnons the plural of?
Cro-Magnons is the plural of Cro-Magnon.

Words near Cro-Magnons in the dictionary

  1. Cro-Magnid
  2. Cro-Magnoid
  3. Cro-Magnon
  4. Cro-Magnon Man
  5. Cro-Magnon Men
  6. Cro-Magnons
  7. croagh
  8. croaghs
  9. croak
  10. croaked
  11. croaker

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