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prehistory
English
Alternative forms
- pre-history
Etymology
From pre- (“before”) +? history, first attested in the Foreign Quarterly Review in 1836, after the model of prehistoric, from French préhistorique.
Noun
prehistory (countable and uncountable, plural prehistories)
- (properly) History before written records, inclusive of both
- The time before written records in any area of the world; the events and conditions of those times.
- The study of those times.
- (humorous, hyperbolic) Any past time (even recent) treated as such a distant, unknowable era.
- 1984, Shiva Naipaul, Beyond the Dragon's Mouth, p. 25:
- I was a town boy through and through. The country belonged to a vague pre-history.
- 1984, Shiva Naipaul, Beyond the Dragon's Mouth, p. 25:
- (often as pre-history) The history leading up to some event, condition, etc.
- 1931 July 25, Time & Tide, p. 893:
- Psychologists... are mostly bad historians, inventing—as Freud has done—their pre-history to suit their theories.
- 1931 July 25, Time & Tide, p. 893:
Synonyms
- (time before written records): prehistoric age, prehistoric times
Antonyms
- posthistory
Related terms
- prehistoric
Translations
References
- “prehistory, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2007
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prehistorian
English
Noun
prehistorian (plural prehistorians)
- A student of, or expert in prehistory
Translations
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