prehistoric

---

Adjective

prehistoric

1. (properly) Of or relating to the epoch before written record.
   • 1832 October, Foreign Quarterly Review, p. 369:

     Was it then in a pre-historic time that the Romans wandered into these lands?

2. (inexact or jocular) Synonym of ancient#English|ancient: very old, nonmodern, unfashionable, etc.

Synonyms

• ante-historic

Related terms

• prehistory

Translations

• French: préhistorique
• German: prähistorisch, vorgeschichtlich
• Italian: preistorico
• Portuguese: pré-histórico
• Russian: доистори́ческий
• Spanish: prehistórico

---

This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.008