prehistory
Noun
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Noun
prehistory
- (properly) History before written records, inclusive of both
- (jocular, hyperbole) 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:
- (time before written records) prehistoric age, prehistoric times
- German: Vorzeit
- French: préhistoire
- German: Vorgeschichte, Urgeschichte
- Italian: preistoria
- Portuguese: pré-história
- Russian: предысто́рия
- Spanish: prehistoria
- German: Vorgeschichte
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