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The way that people lived before there was any organized society.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, law, lifestyle, philosophy, religion, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: civil society
a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he lived in the wild
- they collected mushrooms in the wild
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: wild, natural state
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: state
Narrower terms: crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Finnish:
luonnontila
— the way that people lived before there was any organized society
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French:
état de nature
— the way that people lived before there was any organized society
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German:
Naturzustand
— the way that people lived before there was any organized society
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Hungarian:
természeti állapot
— the way that people lived before there was any organized society
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Hungarian:
természetes állapot
— the way that people lived before there was any organized society
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Italian:
stato di natura
— the way that people lived before there was any organized society
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Latin:
status nātūrae
— the way that people lived before there was any organized society
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Latin:
status nātūrālis
— the way that people lived before there was any organized society
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Portuguese:
estado de natureza
— the way that people lived before there was any organized society
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Swedish:
naturtillstånd
— the way that people lived before there was any organized society