prehistory

Senso (Inglese)

  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.

Concetti

sinonimi

prehistoric culture

prehistoric times

ancient time

geological age

prehistoric era

primeval period

events leading up

events preceding

Etimologia (Inglese)

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

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