prehistoric

3 definitions found

prehistoric - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Prehistoric \Pre`his*tor"ic\, a.
     Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins;
     as, the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man.
     [1913 Webster]

prehistoric - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  prehistoric
      adj 1: belonging to or existing in times before recorded
             history; "prehistoric settlements"; "prehistoric peoples"
             [syn: prehistoric, prehistorical]
      2: of or relating to times before written history; "prehistoric
         archeology"
      3: no longer fashionable; "my mother has these prehistoric ideas
         about proper clothes"

prehistoric - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "prehistoric":
     aboriginal, ancestral, ancient, antediluvian, antepatriarchal,
     antiquated, atavistic, autochthonous, earliest, early, erstwhile,
     fore, former, fossil, humanoid, immemorial, late, old,
     old-fashioned, olden, once, onetime, passe, past, patriarchal,
     preadamite, preglacial, prehuman, previous, primal, prime,
     primeval, primitive, primogenial, primoprimitive, primordial,
     prior, pristine, protohistoric, protohuman, quondam, recent,
     sometime, then