piltdown man

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   a supposedly primitive man later proven to be a hoax

   SynonymsPiltdown hoax

   Broaderprimitive

Questions about piltdown man

What does piltdown man mean?

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

What is another word for piltdown man?

Close synonyms include Piltdown hoax. 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 man a common word?

piltdown man 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.