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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Primeval \Pri*me"val\, a. [L. primaevus; primus first + aevum
     age. See Prime, a., and Age.]
     Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive;
     primary; as, the primeval innocence of man. ``This is the
     forest primeval.'' --Longfellow.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           From chaos, and primeval darkness, came Light. --Keats.
     [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Primeval \Pri*me"val\, a. [L. primaevus; primus first + aevum
     age. See Prime, a., and Age.]
     Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive;
     primary; as, the primeval innocence of man. ``This is the
     forest primeval.'' --Longfellow.
  
           From chaos, and primeval darkness, came Light. --Keats.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  primeval
       adj : having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or
             original stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal
             eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the
             forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial
             forms of life" [syn: aboriginal, primal, primaeval,
              primordial]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  primeval
     Αγγλικά a.
     1 αρχέγονος
     2 πρωιμότατος
     3 πρωτόγονος

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  primeval
     a.
     1 Belonging to the first ages.
     2 primary; original.
     3 primitive.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  primeval
     a.
     1 Belonging to the first ages.
     2 primary; original.
     3 primitive.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  primeval
     a.
     1 Belonging to the first ages.
     2 primary; original.
     3 primitive.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  primeval
     a.
     1 Belonging to the first ages.
     2 primary; original.
     3 primitive.

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  primeval
     Engelska a.
     urtida

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Primeval /pɹaɪmˈiːvəl/
  بدائي

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  primeval //ˈpɹaɪˌmi.vəl// 
  1. праисторически
  belonging to the first ages
  2. първичен
  primary; original
  3. първобитен
  primitive

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  primeval /pɹaɪmˈiːvəl/
  prehistorický

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  primeval /pɹaɪmˈiːvəl/
  prastarý

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  primeval /pɹaɪmˈiːvəl/
  urzeitlich 
     Synonym: primaeval
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  primeval /pɹaɪmˈiːvəl/
  
  προϊστορικός

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  primeval //ˈpɹaɪˌmi.vəl// 
  1. alku, iki-
  belonging to the first ages
  2. alkuperäinen
  primary; original
  3. alkeellinen
  primitive

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  primeval /pɹaɪmˈiːvəl/
  iskonsku, prost, prvobitan

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  primeval /pɹaɪmˈiːvəl/
  1. eredeti
  2. ôsi

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  primeval //ˈpɹaɪˌmi.vəl// 
  原始, 原生
  belonging to the first ages

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  primaeval, primeval /praɪˈmi:vəl/ 
    pierwotny

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  primeval, primeaval /praɪˈmi:vəl/ 
    pierwotny

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  primeval //ˈpɹaɪˌmi.vəl// 
  urtids-
  belonging to the first ages

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  primeval /pɹaɪmˈiːvəl/
  1. ilksel, ilkel.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/pɹaɪˈmivəɫ/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  90 Moby Thesaurus words for "primeval":
     abecedarian, aboriginal, ancestral, ancient, antenatal,
     antepatriarchal, atavistic, autochthonous, basal, basic, beginning,
     budding, central, creative, crucial, early, elemental, elementary,
     embryonic, erstwhile, fetal, fore, formative, former, foundational,
     fundamental, generative, genetic, germinal, gestatory, humanoid,
     immemorial, in embryo, in its infancy, in ovo, in the bud,
     inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular,
     infant, infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory,
     inventive, late, nascent, natal, old, olden, once, onetime,
     original, parturient, past, patriarchal, postnatal, preadamite,
     preglacial, pregnant, prehistoric, prehuman, prenatal, previous,
     primal, primary, prime, primitive, primogenial, primoprimitive,
     primordial, prior, pristine, procreative, protogenic,
     protohistoric, protohuman, quondam, radical, recent, rudimental,
     rudimentary, seminal, sometime, then, ur
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 初期的,原始时代的,太古的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 初期的,原始时代的,太古的

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