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pre-Adamite

pre-Adamite noun: a member of any race that predates Adam.

Noun

pre-Adamite (plural pre-Adamites)

  1. A member of any race that predates Adam.
  2. A believer in pre-Adamitism.

Adjective

pre-Adamite (comparative more pre-Adamite, superlative most pre-Adamite)

  1. Of or pertaining to a race that predates Adam; pre-human.
    • I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, “Poo-Bah”, in […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC

Forms of pre-Adamite

Noun
pluralpre-Adamites
alternative formpræ-Adamite
Adjective
comparativemore pre-Adamite
superlativemost pre-Adamite

Origin of pre-Adamite

From pre- + Adamite.

Questions about pre-Adamite

What does pre-Adamite mean?
Pre-Adamite means a member of any race that predates Adam.
What part of speech is pre-Adamite?
Pre-Adamite can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of pre-Adamite?
The plural of pre-Adamite is pre-Adamites.

Words near pre-Adamite in the dictionary

  1. pre-abelian category
  2. pre-Abrahamic
  3. pre-acquired
  4. pre-action
  5. pre-Adamic
  6. pre-Adamite
  7. pre-Adamites
  8. pre-adamitism
  9. pre-additive category
  10. pre-affiliation
  11. pre-agreed

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