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Meaning of "preliterary" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PRELITERARY

preliterary  [priːˈlɪtərərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRELITERARY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Preliterary is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PRELITERARY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of preliterary in the English dictionary

The definition of preliterary in the dictionary is occurring before the existence of literature.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PRELITERARY


cinerary
ˈsɪnərərɪ
contemporary
kənˈtɛmprərɪ
cotemporary
kəʊˈtɛmpərərɪ
cursorary
ˈkɜːsərərɪ
dishonorary
dɪsˈɒnərərɪ
extemporary
ɪkˈstɛmpərərɪ
funerary
ˈfjuːnərərɪ
honorary
ˈɒnərərɪ
itinerary
aɪˈtɪnərərɪ
literary
ˈlɪtərərɪ
noncontemporary
ˌnɒnkənˈtɛmpərərɪ
nonliterary
nɒnˈlɪtərərɪ
numerary
ˈnjuːmərərɪ
stercorary
ˈstɜːkərərɪ
subliterary
sʌbˈlɪtərərɪ
supernumerary
ˌsuːpəˈnjuːmərərɪ
temporary
ˈtɛmpərərɪ
uncontemporary
ˌʌnkənˈtempərərɪ
unliterary
ʌnˈlɪtərərɪ
vulnerary
ˈvʌlnərərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRELITERARY

prelibation
prelife
prelim.
preliminaries
preliminarily
preliminary
preliminary hearing
Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test
prelimit
prelims
prelingual
prelingually
prelingually deaf
preliteracy
preliterate
preload
prelocate
prelogical
preloved
prelude

WORDS THAT END LIKE PRELITERARY

arbitrary
British Library
circulating library
contrary
dynamic link library
extraliterary
film library
horary
interlibrary
lending library
mobile library
on the contrary
picture library
public library
reference library
school library
siserary
software library
Tipperary
video library

Synonyms and antonyms of preliterary in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «preliterary» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRELITERARY

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

Translator English - Chinese

preliterary
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

preliteraria
570 millions of speakers

English

preliterary
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

preliterary
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

preliterary
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

preliterary
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

preliterary
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

preliterary
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

preliterary
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Permulaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

vorliterarischen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

preliterary
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

preliterary
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Preliterary
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

preliterary
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

preliterary
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पूर्वकल्पना
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

preliterary
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

preliterary
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

preliterary
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

preliterary
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

preliterary
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

preliterary
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

preliterary
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

preliterary
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

preliterary
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of preliterary

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRELITERARY»

The term «preliterary» is used very little and occupies the 161.690 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRELITERARY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «preliterary» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «preliterary» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRELITERARY»

Discover the use of preliterary in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to preliterary and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Fiery Throne: The Prophets and Old Testament Theology
Ezekiel And Preliterary Prophecy The relationship of Ezek 8:1; 14:1; and 20:1 to 2 Kgs 6:32 (and 4:38; and 6:1) points to a certain closeness between Ezekiel's prophecy and that of preclassical, preliterary prophecy. This relationship in the ...
Walther Zimmerli, Kenneth C. Hanson
2
The Challenge of the Modern: Essays on Grazia Deledda
Olla 160–1), Duse's film finds its true artistic value as re-writing or re- symbolization of the preliterary idea of the novel. According to Millicent Marcus's insightful analysis, The good adapter, aware of the unique properties of literary and ...
Sharon Wood, 2007
3
Northrop Frye on Religion: Excluding The Great Code and ...
Preliterary myth arises in a state of society in which there is not as yet a firm and consistent distinction between subject and object. A statement that a subjective A is an objective B is a metaphor, and at the centre of preliterary myths are the ...
Northrop Frye, Alvin A. Lee, Jean O'Grady, 2000
4
Should Christians Be Environmentalists?
In the mid-nineteenth century, the new science of anthropology increased American and European contact with preliterary societies. Most of these scientists (as well as explorers and other adventurers) agreed that an enormous gulf existed ...
Dan Story
5
The State of the Pentateuch: A Comparison of the Approaches ...
In his view, it was during this preliterary period that the great pentateuchal traditions were joined together into a narrative sequence.22 As for the Jacob tradition, its fundamental shape would have been established well before the composition ...
Damian Joseph Wynn-Williams, 1997
6
The Promise to the Patriarchs
Because Hoftijzer and especially Westermann were still working ostensibly on the preliterary level, however, the promise was left in something of a state of limbo, neither a part of the preliterary traditions on which the documents were based, ...
Joel S. Baden, 2013
7
The Common People of Ancient Rome
The historical relations of literary and colloquial Latin would be roughly indicated by the accompanying diagram, in which preliterary Latin divides, on the appearance of literature in the third century B.C., into popular Latin and literary Latin.
Frank Frost Abbott
8
Text and Interpretation: New Approaches in the Criticism of ...
The assumption that there is a direct continuity between the oral and literary phases of the gospel tradition, on the grounds of which the preliterary oral stages can be reconstructed in more than a speculative way, is no longer tenable (cf.
Patrick J. Hartin, Jacobus H. Petzer, 1991
9
Introduction to the Bible
Any attempt to discover the origin, use, and development of the preliterary forms of the Biblical traditions works under certain limiting factors. In the first place, some of the material in the Biblical documents had no preliterary history. It came into ...
‎1971
10
Kierkegaard and the Bible
To be able to do so, the interpreter must know what the characteristics of preliterary myths are. These characteristics can be determined by understanding myths historically as the form of thought and expression that typifies the earliest versions ...
Lee C. Barrett, Jon Bartley Stewart, 2010

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Preliterary [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/preliterary>. Apr 2024 ».
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