See Also: Pleistocene(medicine)
Pleistocene(dictionary)
Pleistocene(dictionary)
Pleistocene Epoch(encyclopedia)

conversant (iou) and Pleistocene (oh)


conversant (iou)



conversant adjective & noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French, pres. pple of converser: see CONVERSE verb, -ANT1.]
A. adjective.
Living or passing time habitually or frequently in or in a specified place. ME-E19.
T. Pennant On marshy..grounds, where they are conversant.
Associating regularly with (also in, among); on familiar terms with. ME.
Steele I am afraid you have been very little conversant with Women.
Occupied or engaged with (also in, among, about); having to do with. LME.
W. Lilly A meer Fisherman, or man conversant in water. C. G. B. Daubeny Chemistry..had..been conversant merely with the qualities of matter.
Well versed or experienced in, familiar with, (a subject). LME.
B. Emecheta Men who were conversant with the goings-on in world Politics. M. Moorcock My mother..was conversant in all forms of literature and learning.
Of a thing: well known, familiar. LME-M17.
B. noun. A familiar acquaintance. L16-L17.

Pleistocene (oh)



[Date: 1800-1900; Language: Greek; Origin: pleistos 'most' + kainos 'recent']
belonging to the period in the Earth's history that started about two million years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago, when much of the Earth was covered with ice