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prehist.

prehist. is the abbreviation of prehistoric.

Meaning of prehistoric

Adjective

prehistoric (comparative more prehistoric, superlative most prehistoric)

  1. (properly) Of or relating to the epoch before written record.
    • Was it then in a pre-historic time that the Romans wandered into these lands?1832 October, Foreign Quarterly Review, page 369
    Synonyms:
    ante-historic
  2. (inexact or humorous) Ancient; very old, outdated, etc.
    • Your idea of a woman is some one who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That’s all prehistoric.1923, Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links
    Synonyms:
    antediluvian

Questions about prehist.

What is prehist. the abbreviation of?
Prehist. is the abbreviation of prehistoric.

Words near prehist. in the dictionary

  1. prehilbert space
  2. prehilbert spaces
  3. prehire
  4. prehiring
  5. prehispanic
  6. prehist.
  7. prehistorian
  8. prehistorians
  9. prehistoric
  10. prehistoric age
  11. prehistoric ages

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prehist. (page history and authors); prehistoric (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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