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ethnographic presents

ethnographic presents is the plural of ethnographic present.

Meaning of ethnographic present

Noun

ethnographic present (countable and uncountable, plural ethnographic presents)

  1. The present tense formerly used in ethnographies, even for cultures that no longer existed by the time they were written.
    • When he said they hunt buffalo, he was using the ethnographic present- there are no buffalo on the reservation.

Questions about ethnographic presents

What is ethnographic presents the plural of?
Ethnographic presents is the plural of ethnographic present.

Words near ethnographic presents in the dictionary

  1. ethnogrammar
  2. ethnographer
  3. ethnographers
  4. ethnographic
  5. ethnographic present
  6. ethnographic presents
  7. ethnographical
  8. ethnographically
  9. ethnographies
  10. ethnographist
  11. ethnographists

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