Prehistoric

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or belonging to the era before recorded history.
  • adj. Of or relating to a language before it is first recorded in writing.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of relating to the epoch before written record.
  • adj. Nonmodern.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Existing in or relating to time antecedent to the beginning of recorded history: as, prehistoric races; the prehistoric period of a country.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. belonging to or existing in times before recorded history
  • adj. no longer fashionable
  • adj. of or relating to times before written history
  • Equivalent
    past    unstylish    unfashionable   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ancient   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Doric    boric    caloric    choric    dysphoric    euphoric    historic    meteoric    moric    perchloric   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Babylonian    extinct    primeval    aboriginal    carnivorous    mythical    primitive    immemorial    mediæval    ancestral