Usually means: Period before written records existed.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word prehistory:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. prehistory: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prehistory: Merriam-Webster
  3. prehistory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prehistory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prehistory: Collins English Dictionary
  6. prehistory: Vocabulary.com
  7. Prehistory, prehistory: Wordnik
  8. prehistory: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. prehistory: Wiktionary
  10. prehistory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. prehistory: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. prehistory: Dictionary.com
  13. Prehistory (album), Prehistory (disambiguation), Prehistory: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. prehistory: Rhymezone
  15. prehistory: FreeDictionary.org
  16. prehistory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. prehistory: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prehistory: Encyclopedia

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Prehistory: Underwater Archaeology Glossary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The time before written records in any area of the world; the events and conditions of those times.
noun:  The study of those times.
noun:  (humorous, hyperbolic) Any past time (even recent) treated as such a distant, unknowable era.
noun:  (often as pre-history) The history leading up to some event, condition, etc.

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