prehistory

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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

Konzepte

Vorgeschichte

Urgeschichte

Prähistorie

geologisches Zeitalter

Vor-und Frühgeschichte

Synonyme

prehistoric culture

prehistoric times

paleontology

prehistorical

ancient time

geological age

prehistoric era

primeval period

events leading up

archaeology

events preceding

archaism

paleology

Übersetzungen

preistoria

préhistoire

prehistoria

prehistorie

pré-história

προϊστορία

voorgeschiedenis

prehistòria

prehistorya

pêşdîrok

Pré-História

prehistória

prehîstorya

pêşmêjû

Etymologie (Englisch)

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