Definition of Missing link

1. Noun. Hypothetical organism formerly thought to be intermediate between apes and human beings.

Exact synonyms: Ape-man
Generic synonyms: Primitive, Primitive Person

Definition of Missing link

1. Noun. (colloquial) A hypothetical primate once thought necessary to explain a perceived evolutionary gap between apes and humans. ¹

2. Noun. (figuratively) Any sought-after or valuable intermediary figure or position. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Missing Link

missileer
missileers
missilelike
missileman
missilemen
missileproof
missileries
missilery
missiles
missilries
missilry
missing
missing a beat
missing boundary
missing in action
missing link
missing links
missing person
missing persons
missing white woman syndrome
missingly
missingness
missiological
missiologies
missiologist
missiologists
missiology
mission
mission bells
mission creep

Literary usage of Missing link

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogueby Brown University, Brown University Class of 1838, Washburn Observatory, Library, Manton Free Library, Exeter, R.I. Manton Free Library, Colorado State Library, Class of 1838, Woodman Astronomical Library, Exeter (R.I.), Liverpool (England) by Brown University, Brown University Class of 1838, Washburn Observatory, Library, Manton Free Library, Exeter, R.I. Manton Free Library, Colorado State Library, Class of 1838, Woodman Astronomical Library, Exeter (R.I.), Liverpool (England) (1884)
"Berean, AM The "missing link" Discovered : a Key to the Mysteries of the Fall of Man ; the Mixture and Dispersion ot the Human Race ; the Origin of Evil, ..."

2. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1895)
"THE missing link.—At the third International Congress of Geologists, which rnet in Dayton, Dr. E. Dubois described his discovery of the "missing link," and ..."

3. Through the Dark Continent: Or, The Sources of the Nile, Around the Great by Henry Morton Stanley (1879)
"... sufferings in the pagans' forest — Tippu- Tib breaks down — A village blacksmith — Soko skulls; the missing link — Professor Huxley's opinion thereon ..."

4. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"(Caliban is the "missing link" between bruit animale and man.) Calendar« (The Three) were three royal princes, disguised as begging dervishes, the subjects ..."

5. Archæology and False Antiquities by Robert Munro (1905)
"A day or two later he wrote saying his missing link with cup and rings was a gate pivot-stone ; that the link was no link ; and that the Mac s on the ..."

6. Evolution and Dogma by John Augustine Zahm (1896)
"The missing link. ANOTH ER question in connection with Evolution which has attracted even greater attention than spontaneous generation, is that respecting ..."

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