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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Remaining in a pure state; uncorrupted by civilization.
  2. adj. Remaining free from dirt or decay; clean: pristine mountain snow.
  3. adj. Of, relating to, or typical of the earliest time or condition; primitive or original.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of or belonging to a primitive or early state or period; original; primitive: as, pristine innocence; the pristine manners of a people.
  2. Synonyms Primitive, etc. See primary.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
  2. adj. Primitive, pertaining to the earliest state of something
  3. adj. Relating to sawfishes of the family Pristidae.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. immaculately clean and unused
  2. adj. completely free from dirt or contamination

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek πρίστης (pristēs, "a saw, one that saws") (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin prīstinus; see per1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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