piltdown hoax

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   a supposedly primitive man later proven to be a hoax

   SynonymsPiltdown man

   Broaderprimitive

Questions about piltdown hoax

What does piltdown hoax mean?

piltdown hoax means "a supposedly primitive man later proven to be a hoax".

What is another word for piltdown hoax?

Close synonyms include Piltdown man. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is piltdown hoax a common word?

piltdown hoax is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.