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Definitions for Fossil

[1] any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton, footprint, etc.
[2] a markedly outdated or old-fashioned person or thing.
[3] a linguistic form that is archaic except in certain restricted contexts, as nonce in for the nonce, or that follows a rule or pattern that is no longer productive, as the sentence So be it.
[4] of the nature of a fossil: fossil insects.
[5] belonging to a past epoch or discarded system; antiquated: a fossil approach to economics.
[6] a relic, remnant, or representation of an organism that existed in a past geological age, or of the activity of such an organism, occurring in the form of mineralized bones, shells, etc, as casts, impressions, and moulds, and as frozen perfectly preserved organisms (as modifier ) fossil insects
[7] informal , derogatory a person, idea, thing, etc, that is outdated or incapable of change (as modifier ) fossil politicians
[8] linguistics a form once current but now appearing only in one or two special contexts, as for example stead , which is found now only in instead (of ) and in phrases like in his stead
[9] obsolete any rock or mineral dug out of the earth

Words related to Fossil

specimen, relic, skeleton, trace, impression, deposit, reconstruction, neolith, eolith, paleolith, petrifaction

Words nearby Fossil

fosse, fosse way, fossette, fossey, fossick, fossil, fossil energy, fossil fuel, fossil fuels, fossil gum, fossil record

Origin of Fossil

1555–65; < Latin fossilis dug up (Cf. fodere to dig); replacing earlier fossile < French

Other words from Fossil

fos·sil·like , adjective
sub·fos·sil , noun
fossilize verb

Word origin for Fossil

C17: from Latin fossilis dug up, from fodere to dig

Synonyms for Fossil

relic, skeleton, specimen, trace, deposit, eolith, impression, neolith, paleolith, petrifaction, reconstruction