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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Belonging to the first ages. 2 primary; original. 3 primitive.
WordNet
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]
Wikipedia
'''Primeval ''' or primæval may refer to:
- Primeval, a British science fiction television series.
- Primeval: New World, a one season Canadian science fiction series, spin-off of the British series Primeval.
- Primeval (film), a 2007 film
- Primeval, also known as The Lost Tribe, a 2010 film
- Primeval (Doctor Who audio), a Big Finish audio play based on the BBC TV series Doctor Who
- "Primeval" (Buffy episode), an episode of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Primeval forest, an area of forest that has attained great age
- Primeval history, chapters 1-11 of the Book of Genesis
- Primeval number, a positive integer satisfying certain conditions
"Primeval" is the 21st episode of season 4 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Primeval is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who.
Primeval is a British science fiction, drama television programme produced for ITV by Impossible Pictures. Created by Adrian Hodges and Tim Haines, who previously created the Walking with... documentary series, Primeval follows a team of scientists tasked with investigating the appearance of temporal anomalies across the United Kingdom through which prehistoric and futuristic creatures enter the present, as well as trying to stop the end of the world.
First broadcast in the UK on 10 February 2007, it has since expanded to an international audience. Overall reception of the programme was positive during the first and second series, maintaining a 25% audience share in the United Kingdom during both series to date. Before it was broadcast on 9 August 2008 on BBC America, the programme received generally positive reaction from American critics as well. The third series, which ITV announced on 30 January 2008, began on 28 March 2009. In the US, series 3 premiered on 16 May 2009 on BBC America.
On 29 September 2009, it was announced that a deal had been struck between ITV, BBC Worldwide, Watch, Impossible Pictures and the German broadcaster ProSieben to produce two new series of the show for transmission in 2011.
Five webisodes were announced prior to the fourth series of seven episodes, which started airing on New Year's Day 2011 on ITV, STV, and UTV in the UK and on BBC America in the US. The fifth series of six episodes aired on Watch in May 2011 and was repeated on ITV from 16 June 2012. Tim Haines has stated that one day, the story will be continued, they only need commitment from a major broadcaster. A British-Canadian co-production spin-off, titled Primeval: New World, was announced on 15 September 2011, to premiere on 29 October 2012 on Space. On 21 February 2013, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Primeval: New World had been cancelled after a single season. Low ratings for the series caused Space and Bell Media to decide against renewing the show for a second season.
Primeval is a 2007 American horror film which was released on January 12, 2007. The film stars Dominic Purcell, Orlando Jones, and Brooke Langton as a team of American journalists who travel to Burundi to film and capture a gigantic, man-eating crocodile.
Primeval was inspired by the true story of Gustave, a , giant, man-eating crocodile in Burundi.
Usage examples of "primeval".
The rhythmical structure of poetry, and above all the device of rhyme, is essentially immature and childish: the use by poets of rhythmical beat and verbal assonance is simply the endeavour to captivate what is a primeval and even barbarous instinct.
His dominant, iron-clad, primeval brutishness was what enabled him to effect the transmutation.
Five hundred million years ago, swimming in the primeval seas, there were fishy creatures called ostracoderms and placoderms, whose brains had recognizably the same major divisions as ours.
Rather is the relation between light and electricity seen to be based on the fact that all polarities arising perceptibly in nature are creations of the same primeval polarity, that of Levity and Gravity.
After the rough-and-tumble of the rapids the serenity of the upper Kutai was a marvelous surprise -- a gondola ride into the forest primeval, engine howl replaced by the delicate plash of dipping paddles, the increasingly lush landscape slipping past at a leisurely, civilized pace.
It had started existence as part of a glacierlike ice moon of the protoplanet Uranus, shattering, melting, and recrystallizing in the primeval eons of relentless bombardment.
That was the gastrula, the protozoon, primeval form of all animal life, primeval form of flesh-borne beauty.
It is clearly the psychopomp of primeval myth, fitted and adapted with infinite deftness to its latter-day setting.
There was a grand assurance in the rigidity of its uprightness, a calm self-assertion in its uncompromising straightness, as if, poised upon circumvagant roots, that, in exploring the quartzy soil, had curled themselves around a layer of primeval granite, it knew that nothing short of an earthquake which should have power to upheave the foundations of the hill itself could compel its stately body to the performance of any undue genuflexions.
The Swamp, as Tuscarora called it, embodied his boyhood notion of primeval nature, the one spot untamed amidst tilled and retilled commonplaceness, the last fastness and abiding-place of the unknown.
The lonely horseman riding between the moonlight and the day sees vast shadows creeping across the shelterless and silent plains, hears strange noises in the primeval forest, where flourishes a vegetation long dead in other lands, and feels, despite his fortune, that the trim utilitarian civilisation which bred him shrinks into insignificance beside the contemptuous grandeur of forest and ranges coeval with an age in which European scientists have cradled his own race.
Bret Harte in verse and story touched the parallels of tragedy and of comedy, of pathos, of bathos, and of humor, which love of life and lust of gold opened up amid the unapprehended grandeurs and the coveted treasures of primeval nature.
Salsette--of endeavors, we repeat, made by peoples as intellectually as geographically distinct, and followers withal of independent and unassociated deities, to magnify and perpetuate some grand primeval symbol.
Mordechai Tanenbaum-Tamaroff of Bialystok was the most vehement opponent of the partisan conception, yet the town was in an immense primeval forest.
CHRIST was that WORD, as well as LIGHT and LIFE, other emanations from the Great Primeval Deity, to which other faiths had assigned the work of creation.