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PRONUNCIATION OF PREMODERN

premodern  [priːˈmɒdən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PREMODERN

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

WHAT DOES PREMODERN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

premodern

Modern history

Modern history, also referred to as the modern period or the modern era, is the historiographical approach to the timeframe after the post-classical era. Modern history can be further broken down into the early modern period and the late modern period after the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. Contemporary history is the span of historic events that are immediately relevant to the present time. The modern era began approximately in the 16th century.

Definition of premodern in the English dictionary

The definition of premodern in the dictionary is of the period before the modern era.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PREMODERN


antimodern
ˌæntɪˈmɒdən
Culloden
kəˈlɒdən
downtrodden
ˈdaʊnˌtrɒdən
Flodden
ˈflɒdən
godden
ˈɡɒdən
hodden
ˈhɒdən
hypermodern
ˌhaɪpəˈmɒdən
modern
ˈmɒdən
nonmodern
ˌnɒnˈmɒdən
postmodern
pəʊstˈmɒdən
promodern
prəʊˈmɒdən
shodden
ˈʃɒdən
sodden
ˈsɒdən
supermodern
ˌsuːpərˈmɒdən
trodden
ˈtrɒdən
ultramodern
ˌʌltrəˈmɒdən
unsodden
ʌnˈsɒdən
untrodden
ʌnˈtrɒdən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PREMODERN

premium-rate
premix
premodification
premodify
premolar
premold
premolt
premonish
premonishment
premonition
premonitive
premonitor
premonitorily
premonitory
Premonstratensian
premoral
premorse
premosaic
premotion
premove

WORDS THAT END LIKE PREMODERN

aldern
Bayern
Bern
concern
dern
eastern
Hordern
intern
kern
lantern
northern
pattern
pern
secondary modern
southern
stern
Tate Modern
tavern
undern
western

Synonyms and antonyms of premodern in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «premodern» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PREMODERN

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

Translator English - Chinese

前现代
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

premoderno
570 millions of speakers

English

premodern
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

premodern
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قبل العصر الحديث
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

досовременный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pré-moderna
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

premodern
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

prémoderne
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Premodern
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

vormodernen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

前近代
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

전근대
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Premodern
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tiền hiện đại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

premodern
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अगोदर निर्देश केलेल्या बाबीसंबंधी बोलताना
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

modern öncesi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

premoderna
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przednowoczesnych
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

досучасного
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

premodern
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

premodern
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

premoderne
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förmodern
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

førmoderne
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of premodern

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PREMODERN»

The term «premodern» is regularly used and occupies the 84.845 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PREMODERN» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREMODERN»

Discover the use of premodern in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to premodern and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Premodern Sexualities
Homoerotics of Compassion in The Boole of Margery Kempe” finds in Kempe's extravagant performative weeping over the body of Christ a mediated circulation of desire among women, provocatively suggesting that premodern female ...
Louise Fradenburg, Carla Freccero, 2013
2
Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey
This newly revised volume drawn from Professor HaneOCOs classic text, "Japan: A Historical Survey, " presents a rich account of early Japanese history for students.
Mikiso Hane, 1990
3
Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of ...
In an innovative discussion that posits the importance of physical well-being as a key indicator of living standards, Susan B. Hanley considers daily life in the three centuries leading up to the modern era in Japan.
Susan B. Hanley, 1997
4
Leprosy in Premodern Medicine: A Malady of the Whole Body
" In this innovative study, medical historian Luke Demaitre explores medical and social perspectives on leprosy at a time when judicious diagnosis could spare healthy people from social ostracization and help the afflicted get a license to ...
Luke Demaitre, 2009
5
The Human Tradition in Premodern China
The Human Tradition in Premodern China is a collection of biographical essays revealing the variety and complexity of human experience in China from the earliest historical times to the dawn of the modern age. p China is a vast country with ...
Kenneth James Hammond, 2002
6
Maritime Sector, Institutions, and Sea Power of Premodern China
Challenging the stereotype of premodern China as an agricultural nation, this book examines the development of the maritime sector, maritime institutions, and sea power in the premodern era.
Gang Deng, 1999
7
The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory
Bruce Holsinger identifies and explains an affinity for medievalism and medieval studies among the leading figures of critical theory.
Bruce Holsinger, 2005
8
Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn
This book recovers places appearing in the mental mapping of medieval and Renaissance writers, from Chaucer to Aphra Behn. A highly original work, which recovers the places that figure powerfully in premodern imagining.
David Wallace, 2008
9
The Blacks of Premodern China
The Blacks of Premodern China describes the earliest Chinese encounters with peoples regarded as black.
Don J. Wyatt, 2011
10
Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and ...
This book rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between "Confucianisms" and "women."
Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush, Joan R. Piggott, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PREMODERN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term premodern is used in the context of the following news items.
1
A Passion for the Void
... in the 1974 essay “Dry Sketch of Horses”—and their unapologetic appetites is part of what lends her work its shamanic, premodern qualities. «The New Republic, Jul 15»
2
Chimay, the 'Lourdes of America'
William Hamblin is the author of several books on premodern history. They speak only for themselves. Share0 Share0 Tweet0 Share0 Share0. «Deseret News, Jul 15»
3
Picturing Technology in China: From Earliest Times to the …
Chinese contributions to science and technology are numerous, yet in premodern China there was neither the concept of "technology" nor a ... «Caixin Media, Jul 15»
4
How to think about Islamic State
Premodern political chieftains, who were long ago supplanted by western-educated men and women quoting John Stuart Mill and demanding ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
5
Genetic screening of pupils would herald a Huxleyan nightmare
It's a return of the premodern idea of fate, though dolled up in the modern-sounding lingo of science. We should remember the thinkers of the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
6
Confucius says, Xi does
... philosophy, which still raises hackles among party hacks brought up to regard it as the underpinning of “feudal” rule in premodern China. «The Economist, Jul 15»
7
Journeying back in time with ancient DNA
Nowadays, as a postdoc at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, she focuses on premodern humans' population movements. «ScienceCareers.org, Jul 15»
8
America on the March: International Relations Framework
... on close inspection, had already assumed capitalistic form—the one institution theoretically premodern that by virtue of having escaped the ... «CounterPunch, Jul 15»
9
Debating Homosexuality
Besides all this, some academics will also point out that premodern Muslim scholars worked with different categories of sex and gender than ... «MuslimMatters, Jul 15»
10
Tanizaki set the standard for literary hedonism
He also attempted to restore the sexual preferences and aesthetics of premodern Japanese society, which were denied in the Meiji Restoration ... «The Japan News, Jul 15»

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