autochthony

«autochthony» in Mova's school dictionary: The idea that a people has always lived in its own land… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (rare; no plural used)

meaning for a pupil

The idea that a people has always lived in its own land, or that they came out of the earth there; a rare word from learned writing. tree →

sense in the lessons

in old tales and learned books, an old theory that the first people sprang from the soil of their own land.

examples

• The old theory of autochthony was dropped. tree →
• Some tales say the first people came out of the earth, an idea called autochthony. tree →
• Autochthony comes from Greek words meaning self and earth. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «autochthony» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.