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Meaning of "Piltdown man" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PILTDOWN MAN

Piltdown man  [ˈpɪltˌdaʊn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PILTDOWN MAN

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Piltdown man is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PILTDOWN MAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Piltdown man

Piltdown Man

The Piltdown Man was a paleoanthropological hoax in which bone fragments were presented as the fossilised remains of a previously unknown early human. These fragments consisted of parts of a skull and jawbone, said to have been collected in 1912 from a gravel pit at Piltdown, East Sussex, England. The Latin name Eoanthropus dawsoni was given to the specimen. The significance of the specimen remained the subject of controversy until it was exposed in 1953 as a forgery, consisting of the lower jawbone of an orangutan deliberately combined with the cranium of a fully developed modern human. The Piltdown hoax is perhaps the most famous paleoanthropological hoax ever to have been perpetrated. It is prominent for two reasons: the attention paid to the issue of human evolution, and the length of time that elapsed from its discovery to its full exposure as a forgery.

Definition of Piltdown man in the English dictionary

The definition of Piltdown man in the dictionary is an advanced hominid postulated from fossil bones found in Sussex in 1912, but shown by modern dating methods in 1953 to be a hoax, which was perpetrated by a student museum assistant who was refused a wage.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PILTDOWN MAN


blowdown
ˈbləʊˌdaʊn
breakdown
ˈbreɪkˌdaʊn
cooldown
ˈkuːlˌdaʊn
countdown
ˈkaʊntˌdaʊn
cutdown
ˈkʌtˌdaʊn
drawdown
ˈdrɔːˌdaʊn
hoedown
ˈhəʊˌdaʊn
markdown
ˈmɑːkˌdaʊn
meltdown
ˈmɛltˌdaʊn
pastedown
ˈpeɪstˌdaʊn
pull-down
ˈpʊlˌdaʊn
shootdown
ˈʃuːtˌdaʊn
showdown
ˈʃəʊˌdaʊn
shutdown
ˈʃʌtˌdaʊn
slowdown
ˈsləʊˌdaʊn
smackdown
ˈsmækˌdaʊn
step-down
ˈstɛpˌdaʊn
sundown
ˈsʌnˌdaʊn
teardown
ˈtɛərˌdaʊn
touchdown
ˈtʌtʃˌdaʊn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PILTDOWN MAN

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Pilsener
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WORDS THAT END LIKE PILTDOWN MAN

action man
as one man
be one´s own man
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con man
Cro-Magnon man
dustbin man
family man
iron man
main man
make-up man
modern man
muffin man
old man
organization man
repossession man
Rhodesian man
sanitation man
to a man
young man

Synonyms and antonyms of Piltdown man in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Piltdown man» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PILTDOWN MAN

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The translations of Piltdown man from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Piltdown man» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

皮尔当人
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hombre de Piltdown
570 millions of speakers

English

Piltdown man
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Piltdown आदमी
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

رجل بلتداون
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Пилтдаунский человек
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

homem de Piltdown
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পাইলটম্যান ম্যান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

homme de Piltdown
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lelaki Piltdown
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Piltdown Mann
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ピルトダウン人
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

필트 다운
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Piltdown man
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

người đàn ông Piltdown
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Piltdown மனிதன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पिल्डाडाउन मनुष्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Piltdown adamı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

uomo di Piltdown
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

człowiek z Piltdown
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Пілтдаунскій людина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

omul Piltdown
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Πίλτνταουν άνθρωπος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Piltdown man
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Piltdownmänniskan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Piltdown mannen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Piltdown man

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PILTDOWN MAN»

The term «Piltdown man» is normally little used and occupies the 135.782 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PILTDOWN MAN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Piltdown man

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PILTDOWN MAN»

Discover the use of Piltdown man in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Piltdown man and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Piltdown Man: The Secret Life of Charles Dawson & The ...
The perpetrator was almost certainly the antiquarian excavator Charles Dawson who, as Miles Russell shows, was responsible for 16 other archaeological forgeries during his lifetime.
Miles Russell, 2003
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Piltdown Man and Other Hoaxes: A Book About Lies, Legends, ...
Piltdown Man and Other Hoaxes examines this disastrous fraud in depth, and explores other scientific scandals as well, such as those in regards to Bigfoot, the Yeti, lake monsters, and mermaids.
Jonathan Maxwell, 2011
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Piltdown Man
of the teeth (as seen in the X-ray pictures of the time) were also much more like those of human teeth. And finally, the appearances of this apelike man at the beginning of the Ice Age was just what many authorities had expected to find. In July ...
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The Jaw of the Piltdown Man (1915)
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series.
Gerrit Smith Miller Jr, 2010
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Piltdown: A Scientific Forgery
Written by anthropologist Frank Spencer, Piltdown tells the story of this incredible hoax, the greatest forgery in the history of modern science.
Frank Spencer, 1990
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Unraveling Piltdown: the science fraud of the century and ...
In Unraveling Piltdown, John Evangelist Walsh tells the complete story of the astonishing hoax, and convincingly exposes the true culprit.
John Evangelist Walsh, 1996
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The Piltdown Forgery: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, with a ...
Weiner is one of the scientists who discovered the fraud, this is his account of how he came to uncover it, and he also discusses the probable authorship of one of the greatest hoaxes of our time.
J. S. Weiner, 2003
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Piltdown Man
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Piltdown Man was a hoax in which bone fragments were presented as the fossilised remains of a previously unknown early human.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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Searching for Heaven on Earth: How to Find What Really ...
More bones were soon discovered, and suddenly the world had “proof” of Darwin's theory of evolution: Piltdown Man. The scientific literature that came out about Piltdown Man was enormous, with more than five hundred doctoral dissertations ...
David Jeremiah, 2004
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Church History: An Introduction to Research, Reference ...
The "Piltdown Man" had a longer and far more successful history. In 1912, Charles Dawson reported his discovery of cranial fragments and a jawbone on Piltdown Common, near Lewes, England. Near these fragments were other humanoid ...
James E. Bradley, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PILTDOWN MAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Piltdown man is used in the context of the following news items.
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The great dinosaur fossil hoax
Like England's infamous Piltdown man it turned out to be a cut-and-paste fossil made of different species. For National Geographic, a bastion of ... «Cosmos, Jul 15»
2
RISE OF THE MACHINES: Could artificial intelligence kill us off?
In 1912, he became part of the team working on Piltdown Man, the “discovery” of bones in East Sussex which were claimed to belong to an ... «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»
3
Letter - Evolutionary frauds perpetuated on public
#Evolutionists asserted that Piltdown man was an ancient ancestor of modern man. A plaster cast of the skull was on display at the British ... «Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, Jul 15»
4
Spiritual Thoughts - June 26, 2015
... entirely fraudulent (e.g., Haeckel's embryos, “vestigial organs,” horse evolution, Java man, Piltdown man, Nebraska man, Archaeopteryx, etc.) ... «Thompson Citizen, Jun 15»
5
A Point of View: How time passes differently as you get older
Manipulated history can offer us clumsy impostures like Piltdown man, or the vile fantasies involved in Holocaust denial. History as a vital, ... «BBC News, Jun 15»
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What the Faked Gay Marriage Study Says About Academia and the …
And it's not as though faith in “When Contact Changes Minds” lasted as long as Piltdown Man, I Rigoberta Menchu, the Kinsey Reports, or other ... «American Spectator, May 15»
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Seymour M. Hersh is writing an alternative history of the war on terror.
It's a great hoax – like the Piltdown man.' The retired official said that most of the materials from Abbottabad were turned over to the US by the ... «London Review of Books, May 15»
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The Pills That Mother Gives You
He starts with Freud, who “was to human self-understanding what Piltdown Man was to physical anthropology.” Outside of your average ... «Washington Free Beacon, May 15»
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Election 2015: Voter profiles of the past
Selsdon Man should not be confused with Piltdown Man, after whom he was named. Piltdown Man was a skeleton touted as Darwin's missing ... «BBC News, May 15»
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John E. Walsh, Who Distilled the Bible, Dies at 87
... subjects as diverse as Abraham Lincoln's first girlfriend, the Shroud of Turin and Piltdown Man, as well as literary biographies of John Keats, ... «New York Times, Apr 15»

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