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prehistory

prehistory

English

Noun

prehistory ‎(countable and uncountable, plural prehistories)

The history of human culture prior to written records.
The history of the events that led up to something (e.g. a crisis, a reconciliation, etc).

Related terms

prehistoric

Antonyms

posthistory

Translations

history of human culture prior to written records

Armenian: նախապատմություն (hy) ‎(naxapatmutʿyun)
Asturian: prehistoria f
Catalan: prehistòria (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 史前 (zh) ‎(shǐqián)
Czech: pravěk (cs) m
Dutch: prehistorie (nl) f
Esperanto: prahistorio (eo)
Finnish: esihistoria
French: préhistoire (fr) f
Galician: prehistoria f
German: Vorgeschichte (de) f, Urgeschichte f
Italian: preistoria (it) f
Japanese: 先史時代 (ja) ‎(senshi jidai)

Norman: préhistouaithe f
Kurdish:
Kurmanji: pêşdîrok (ku) f
Malay:
Rumi: prasejarah (ms)
Norwegian Bokmål: forhistorie m, f
Norwegian Nynorsk: forhistorie f
Portuguese: pré-história (pt) f
Russian: предысто́рия (ru) f ‎(predystórija)
Serbo-Croatian: prethistorija (sh), prahistorija (sh), pretpovijest (sh), prapovijest (sh), prehistorija
Spanish: prehistoria (es) f
Swedish: förhistoria c
Ukrainian: передісто́рія f ‎(peredistórija)
Volapük: rujenav

history of events leaving up to something

Armenian: նախապատմություն (hy) ‎(naxapatmutʿyun)
Chinese:
Mandarin:
Finnish: historia (fi)

French:
German: Vorgeschichte (de) f
Japanese: 前史 ‎(zenshi)
Russian:

See also

archaeology