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arch
  • n  a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening
  • n  a curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet)
  • n  a passageway under a curved masonry construction
    they built a triumphal arch to memorialize their victory
  • n  (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it
  • v  form an arch or curve
    her back arches
  • s  (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension
  • s  expert in skulduggery
    an arch criminal
  • s  naughtily or annoyingly playful
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archaean
  • s  of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon
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archaeologic
  • a  related to or dealing with or devoted to archaeology
    an archaeological dig
    a dramatic archaeological discovery
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archipelagic
  • a  relating to or part of an archipelago
    an archipelagic war
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archaeological
  • a  related to or dealing with or devoted to archaeology
    an archaeological dig
    a dramatic archaeological discovery
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archaeozoic
  • n  the time from 3,800 million years to 2,500 million years ago; earth's crust formed; unicellular organisms are earliest forms of life
  • s  of or belonging to earlier of two divisions of the Precambrian era
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archaic
  • s  so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
    archaic laws
  • s  little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
    archaic forms of life
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archaistic
  • a  imitative of an archaic style or manner
    archaistic writing
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