prehistory

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Concepten

prehistorie

voorgeschiedenis

oertijd

Synoniemen

prehistoric culture

prehistoric times

paleontology

prehistorical

ancient time

geological age

prehistoric era

primeval period

events leading up

archaeology

events preceding

archaism

paleology

Vertalingen

preistoria

Vorgeschichte

préhistoire

prehistoria

pré-história

Urgeschichte

Prähistorie

prehistòria

προϊστορία

Pré-História

prehistorya

prehistória

pêşdîrok

inizio della storia

Etymologie (Engels)

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