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Meaning of PREHISTORIC

Pronunciation:  `preehi'storik

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 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  (informal) "my mother has these prehistoric ideas about proper clothes"
  2. [adj]  belonging to or existing in times before recorded history; "prehistoric settlements"; "prehistoric peoples"
  3. [adj]  of or relating to times before written history; "prehistoric archeology"
 
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 Synonyms: out of fashion, past, prehistorical, unfashionable, unstylish
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Pre`his*tor"ic\, a.
Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins;
as, the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man.
 
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Glossary
 
 Definition: the period prior to written records for any given area. In North America synonymous with
 
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