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单词 beaker folk
释义

Beaker folk

[ bee-ker ]
/ ˈbi kər /

noun

a late Neolithic to Copper Age people living in Europe, so called in reference to the bell beakers commonly found buried with their dead in barrows.
Also called Beaker people.

Origin of Beaker folk

First recorded in 1920–25

Words nearby Beaker folk

beak, beaked pelvis, beaked whale, beaker, beaker cell, Beaker folk, beaking joint, beaky-nosed, Beal, Beale, Beale Street
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Example sentences from the Web for Beaker folk

  • We are forced to admit that we are in total ignorance of the language spoken by the Beaker-folk.

    The Bronze Age and the Celtic World|Harold Peake

British Dictionary definitions for Beaker folk

Beaker folk

noun

a prehistoric people thought to have originated in the Iberian peninsula and spread to central Europe and Britain during the second millennium bc

Word Origin for Beaker folk

C20: named after the beakers found among their remains
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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