prehistory

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The time before written records in any area of the world; the events and conditions of those times.
The study of those times.
Any past time (even recent) treated as such a distant, unknowable era.
The history leading up to some event, condition, etc.

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From pre- (“before”) + history, first attested in the Foreign Quarterly Review in 1836, after the model of prehistoric, from French préhistorique.

prehistoric age

posthistory

prehistorian prehistoric

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