"Levalloisian" meaning in English

See Levalloisian in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: Levallois + -ian. Named after Levallois-Perret, a suburb of Paris where stone tools were found during the 19th century. Attested from the 20th century. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Levallois|ian}} Levallois + -ian, {{m|en|Levallois-Perret}} Levallois-Perret Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} Levalloisian (not comparable)
  1. (archaeology, anthropology) Of or related to certain Middle Paleolithic cultures. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Anthropology, Archaeology
    Sense id: en-Levalloisian-en-adj-KfXzCzKD Topics: anthropology, archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences
  2. (of stone tools) Manufactured with the Levallois technique of flint knapping. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-Levalloisian-en-adj-Xow9AFBT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ian Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 80 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ian: 28 72

Download JSON data for Levalloisian meaning in English (2.9kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Levallois",
        "3": "ian"
      },
      "expansion": "Levallois + -ian",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Levallois-Perret"
      },
      "expansion": "Levallois-Perret",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Levallois + -ian. Named after Levallois-Perret, a suburb of Paris where stone tools were found during the 19th century. Attested from the 20th century.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Levalloisian (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Anthropology",
          "orig": "en:Anthropology",
          "parents": [
            "Social sciences",
            "Zoology",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "Biology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Archaeology",
          "orig": "en:Archaeology",
          "parents": [
            "Anthropology",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Zoology",
            "All topics",
            "Society",
            "Biology",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1902, D.J. Cunningham, “Right-handedness and left-brainedness. Huxley Memorial Lecture”, in Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, page 23",
          "text": "O'Brien regards the Still-Bay as the final development of the Levalloisian, and, like Leakey, assigns it to the end of the Gamblian pluvial.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of or related to certain Middle Paleolithic cultures."
      ],
      "id": "en-Levalloisian-en-adj-KfXzCzKD",
      "links": [
        [
          "archaeology",
          "archaeology"
        ],
        [
          "anthropology",
          "anthropology"
        ],
        [
          "Paleolithic",
          "Paleolithic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaeology, anthropology) Of or related to certain Middle Paleolithic cultures."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anthropology",
        "archaeology",
        "history",
        "human-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "20 80",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "28 72",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ian",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, A.P. Okladnikov, “Inner Asia at the dawn of history”, in Denis Sinor, editor, The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia, volume 1, page 54, Julia Crookenden, translator",
          "text": "Purely Levalloisian stone tools which might be called classic models have been found in the Altai and Unst’-Kansk caves on the Charysh and Strashnaya rivers (in the Tigerek mountains).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Manufactured with the Levallois technique of flint knapping."
      ],
      "id": "en-Levalloisian-en-adj-Xow9AFBT",
      "links": [
        [
          "flint",
          "flint"
        ],
        [
          "knapping",
          "knapping"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of stone tools) Manufactured with the Levallois technique of flint knapping."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of stone tools"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Levalloisian"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -ian",
    "English uncomparable adjectives"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Levallois",
        "3": "ian"
      },
      "expansion": "Levallois + -ian",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Levallois-Perret"
      },
      "expansion": "Levallois-Perret",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Levallois + -ian. Named after Levallois-Perret, a suburb of Paris where stone tools were found during the 19th century. Attested from the 20th century.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Levalloisian (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Anthropology",
        "en:Archaeology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1902, D.J. Cunningham, “Right-handedness and left-brainedness. Huxley Memorial Lecture”, in Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, page 23",
          "text": "O'Brien regards the Still-Bay as the final development of the Levalloisian, and, like Leakey, assigns it to the end of the Gamblian pluvial.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of or related to certain Middle Paleolithic cultures."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "archaeology",
          "archaeology"
        ],
        [
          "anthropology",
          "anthropology"
        ],
        [
          "Paleolithic",
          "Paleolithic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaeology, anthropology) Of or related to certain Middle Paleolithic cultures."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anthropology",
        "archaeology",
        "history",
        "human-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, A.P. Okladnikov, “Inner Asia at the dawn of history”, in Denis Sinor, editor, The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia, volume 1, page 54, Julia Crookenden, translator",
          "text": "Purely Levalloisian stone tools which might be called classic models have been found in the Altai and Unst’-Kansk caves on the Charysh and Strashnaya rivers (in the Tigerek mountains).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Manufactured with the Levallois technique of flint knapping."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "flint",
          "flint"
        ],
        [
          "knapping",
          "knapping"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of stone tools) Manufactured with the Levallois technique of flint knapping."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of stone tools"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Levalloisian"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.