prehistoric

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"I don't know any historical world which would equal the modern, and as for the prehistoric--well, Professor Doon can tell us As a sphere of amenable existence," said Doon with a smile, "give me Chetwood Park and Piccadilly That is mere hedonism," said Count Lavretsky.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or belonging to the era before recorded history.
  2. adjective Of or relating to a language before it is first recorded in writing.

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  • The research also meshes with the story told by other finds like the prehistoric Venus. —  msnbc.com: Community
  • Then, without missing a beat, the Democrats returned to their wild predictions of the earth fizzling up and their grandchildren perishing like the prehistoric creatures who once roamed our doomed planet. —  PA Pundits - International
  • Duties include developing and presenting guided interpretive tours of prehistoric (500-1300AD) Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings / mesa top sites, conducting educational programs and children's walks, working in some cliff dwellings on a self-guided basis answering questions and protecting cultural resources, and working behind an information desk. —  DesertUSA News
  • And this time, he brings us some sort of utterly ludicrous version of prehistoric history. —  Irish Blogs
  • His talk reminds me of Seung-Hui Cho, the person responsible for the Virginia tech shootings … I think this guy needs to go out more, interact more with real people more than wasting his time with his own prehistoric (which he assumes as revolutionary) ideas. —  United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
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Words tagged prehistoric

devincenzia · procariama · andalgalornis · patagornis · brontornis · psilopterus · paraphysornis · phorusrhacos · physornis · andrewsornis · paleopsilopterus

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  1. = French préhistorique; as pre- + historic.
 

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/prihɪsˈtɑrɪk/
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