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UK
/pɹˌiːhɪstˈɒɹɪk/
]
[ US /ˌpɹihɪˈstɔɹɪk/ ]
[ US /ˌpɹihɪˈstɔɹɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
belonging to or existing in times before recorded history
prehistoric peoples
prehistoric settlements -
of or relating to times before written history
prehistoric archeology -
no longer fashionable
my mother has these prehistoric ideas about proper clothes
How To Use prehistoric In A Sentence
- Prehistoric rubbish heaps produced by the strandlopers are found in a number of caves and tell a great deal about the San people's lifestyle.
- As Christians who reject evolutionary theory, the family scoffed at the park's dinosaur attractions, which date the apatosaurus, brachiosaurus and the like to prehistoric times.
- There can be few museums in the world whose range of exhibits includes a stuffed, 5ft-long, prehistoric fish and a pair of unworn, extremely expensive, blue cowboy-boots.
- The Jet Ranger arced upwards, a big prehistoric pterodactyl lurching blindly in its death throes.
- Archaeologists attribute the ruin to a flourishing prehistoric kingdom.
- The road has been an important trade route since prehistoric times.
- It's all about empathy - picturing yourself as the mighty prehistoric beast. The Sun
- Liphschitz N (1986) The vegetational landscape and the macroclimate of Israel during prehistoric and protohistoric periods. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- A set of prehistoric footprints, said to show meat-eating dinosaurs hunting vegetarian dinos, has just been recreated in a detailed 3-D model.
- Frazer writes about the ceremonial king of so many prehistoric agricultural societies.
