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I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.
Charles Lyell

Meaning of "Pleistocene" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PLEISTOCENE

From Greek pleistos most + kainos recent.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PLEISTOCENE

Pleistocene  [ˈplaɪstəˌsiːn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PLEISTOCENE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pleistocene can act as a noun and an adjective.
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WHAT DOES PLEISTOCENE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pleistocene

Pleistocene

The Pleistocene /ˈplaɪstəsiːn/ is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. Charles Lyell introduced this term in 1839 to describe strata in Sicily that had at least 70% of their molluscan fauna still living today. This distinguished it from the older Pliocene Epoch, which Lyell had originally thought to be the youngest fossil rock layer. He constructed the name "Pleistocene" from the Greek πλεῖστος, pleīstos, "most", and καινός, kainós, "new"; this contrasting with the immediately preceding Pleiocene, and the immediately subsequent Holocene epoch, which extends to the present time. The Pleistocene is the first epoch of the Quaternary Period or sixth epoch of the Cenozoic Era. The end of the Pleistocene corresponds with the end of the last glacial period. It also corresponds with the end of the Paleolithic age used in archaeology. In the ICS timescale, the Pleistocene is divided into four stages or ages, the Gelasian, Calabrian, Ionian and Tarantian. All of these stages were defined in southern Europe.

Definition of Pleistocene in the English dictionary

The definition of Pleistocene in the dictionary is of, denoting, or formed in the first epoch of the Quaternary period, which lasted for about 1 600 000 years. It was characterized by extensive glaciations of the N hemisphere and the evolutionary development of man.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PLEISTOCENE


adenosine
æˈdɛnəˌsiːn
anthracene
ˈænθrəˌsiːn
Anthropocene
ænˈθrɒpəˌsiːn
arrasene
ˈærəˌsiːn
benzanthracene
benˈzænθrəˌsiːn
cyclazocine
saɪˈklæzəˌsiːn
damascene
ˈdæməˌsiːn
dryopithecine
ˌdraɪəʊˈpɪθəˌsiːn
ferrocene
ˈfɛrəʊˌsiːn
guanosine
ˈɡwɑːnəˌsiːn
Holocene
ˈhɒləˌsiːn
hyoscine
ˈhaɪəˌsiːn
kerosene
ˈkɛrəˌsiːn
kerosine
ˈkɛrəˌsiːn
Miocene
ˈmaɪəˌsiːn
Neocene
ˈniːəˌsiːn
nigrosine
ˈnɪɡrəˌsiːn
Oligocene
ˈɒlɪɡəʊˌsiːn
spinacene
ˈspaɪnəˌsiːn
tyrosine
ˈtaɪrəˌsiːn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PLEISTOCENE

Pleiades
plein-air
plein-airist
pleinairism
Pleiocene
pleiochasium
pleiomerous
pleiomery
pleiotaxy
pleiotropic
pleiotropism
pleiotropy
Plekhanov

WORDS THAT END LIKE PLEISTOCENE

crime scene
demoscene
Eocene
love scene
metallocene
obscene
Palaeocene
paleocene
Pleiocene
Pliocene
scene
sex scene
the Anthropocene
the Eocene
the Holocene
the Miocene
the Oligocene
the Palaeocene
the Pleistocene
the Pliocene

Synonyms and antonyms of Pleistocene in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Pleistocene» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PLEISTOCENE

Find out the translation of Pleistocene to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Pleistocene from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Pleistocene» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

更新世
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Pleistoceno
570 millions of speakers

English

Pleistocene
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्लेइस्तोसने
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

العصر الجليدي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

плейстоцена
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Pleistoceno
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্লেইস্টোসিন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pléistocène
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pleistocene
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Pleistozän
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

更新世
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

홍적세
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pleistocene
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

thuộc về hồng tích kỳ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பிளாய்டோசீன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्लीस्टोसिन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

pleistosen
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Pleistocene
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

plejstocen
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

плейстоцену
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Pleistocen
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Πλειστόκαινο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Pleistoseen
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Pleistocene
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pleistocen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Pleistocene

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PLEISTOCENE»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PLEISTOCENE» OVER TIME

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

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4 QUOTES WITH «PLEISTOCENE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Pleistocene.
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Kate Bernheimer
As scientists have discovered - or perhaps explained is a better word, or perhaps identified - we now live in the age of the Anthropocene. The geologic age of the Anthropocene. Those high priests of material evidence have given us our own epoch like the Holocene, the Pleistocene! Apparently we now, it seems, have superhuman powers.
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Louis Leakey
I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.
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Louis Leakey
I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.
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Charles Lyell
I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLEISTOCENE»

Discover the use of Pleistocene in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Pleistocene and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Coming Home to the Pleistocene
In this book, Paul Shepard presents concrete suggestions for fostering the kinds of ecological settings and cultural practices that are optimal for human health and well-being.
Paul Shepard, Florence R. Shepard, 2013
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Pleistocene Mammals of Europe
Handbuch/übergreifende Darstellung - Europa - Paläontologie.
Björn Kurtén, 1968
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Megafauna: Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America
More than 10,000 years ago spectacularly large mammals roamed the pampas and jungles of South America. This book tells the story of these great beasts during and just after the Pleistocene, the geological epoch marked by the great ice ages.
Richard A. Fariña, Sergio F. Vizcaíno, Gerry De Iuliis, 2012
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Earth's Pre-Pleistocene Glacial Record
PREFACE This book is a compilation, made between late 1978 and early 1980 of data on tillites and tillite-like rocks, undertaken for the Pre-Pleistocene Tillite Project of the International Geological Correlation Programme. The organisation of ...
M. J. Hambrey, W. B. Harland, 2011
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American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene
Different chapters in this volume provide in-depth resumés of the chronology of the extinctions in North and South America, the possible insights into animal ecology provided by studies of stable isotopes and anatomical/physiological ...
Gary Haynes, 2008
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Late Pleistocene Archaeology and Ecology in the Far Northeast
Eight contributions adapted from presentations given at a symposium held at the 2009 annual meeting of the Quebec Archaeological Association in Sherbrooke; 2 additional contributions and the introd. written specifically for this book.
Claude Chapdelaine, 2012
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From the Pleistocene to the Holocene: Human Organization and ...
Not all presenters submitted a chapter, so others were solicited to expand the geographic coverage of the volume."--Chapter 1.
C. Britt Bousman, Bradley J. Vierra, 2012
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Early-Middle Pleistocene Transitions: The Land-ocean Evidence
"This book arose from a one-day international conference on the 'Early-Middle Pleistocene transitions: the land-ocean evidence' held in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge on 4 April 2003."--Préf.
Martin J. Head, Philip Leonard Gibbard, 2005
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Biodiversity Response to Climate Change in the Middle ...
Annotation Fossil finds from 10 years of research show the effects of climate change on North American mammals during the Pleistocene era, about one million to 400,000 years ago.
Anthony D. Barnosky, 2004
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Pleistocene History of the Lower Thames Valley
The Lower Thames Valley is a classic area for British Pleistocene studies.
Philip Leonard Gibbard, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLEISTOCENE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Pleistocene is used in the context of the following news items.
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Climate change drove sloths, mammoths to extinction, say scientists …
During the unstable climate of the Late Pleistocene, about 60,000 to 12,000 years ago, abrupt climate spikes, called interstadials, increased ... «Christian Science Monitor, Jul 15»
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Big cats' predatory strategy reflected by a 2-million-year-old bovid …
A nearly complete Leptobos brevicornis mandible from the Early Pleistocene of Longdan locality in Gansu Province, northwestern China was ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
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Past and present genomes tell the story of Native American …
"We wanted a variety of locations as well as ages . . . what we were able to show overall, other than the late Pleistocene Anzick boy that was ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
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Climate Change Led to the Disappearance of the Wooly Mammoth
The researchers who conducted the study found that the abrupt changes of temperatures which took place in the Late Pleistocene period could ... «Capital Wired, Jul 15»
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Five Myths About Economic Growth
Pleistocene hunters needed to read mammoth tracks more than we need to read our Twitter feed. Now when it comes to processing information ... «CounterCurrents.org, Jul 15»
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Two Studies Find Ties Between Native Americans and Australia …
... journal Science, published on July 22, entitled “Genomic Evidence for the Pleistocene and Recent Population History of Native Americans. «Indian Country Today Media Network, Jul 15»
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This Week in Science
By comparing ancient DNA with radiocarbon data on severe climate events in the Late Pleistocene that were obtained through Greenland ice ... «GenomeWeb, Jul 15»
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First Americans mystery again plus $100 million search for …
But the American editions of these genes “cannot be due to a single pulse of migration south of the Late Pleistocene ice sheets from a ... «PLoS Blogs, Jul 15»
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View larger version:
But the vast Pleistocene game park had vanished by 10,000 years ago. The great beasts were long gone, replaced by familiar elk and moose, ... «Science Magazine, Jul 15»
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The Wilderness That Never Was
If we wanted an environment before humans, we'd have to go back to the Pleistocene. Unless we reintroduce Colombian mammoth, we're not ... «KQED, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Pleistocene [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/pleistocene>. May 2024 ».
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