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Prehistorical

Definition: Prehistorical

Prehistorical

Adjective

1. Belonging to or existing in times before recorded history; "prehistoric settlements"; "prehistoric peoples".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "prehistorical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references)


Specialty Definition: Prehistorical

DomainDefinition

Biology & Biotechnology

Of, relating to, or existing in times antedating written history; i. e. in the United States and in South America, prior to Spanish Conquest; in Western Europe, before Greeks; in the Near East, before the invention of writing during the third millennium B. C. . Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Prehistorical

Synonym: prehistoric (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Prehistorical

English words defined with "prehistorical": date. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Prehistorical

DomainTitle

Books

  • Historical and Prehistorical Earthquakes in the Caucasus (NATO Asi Series. Partnership Sub-Series 2, Environment, Vol. 28.) (reference)

  • Prehistorical Iron Smelting (reference)

  • Prehistorical Switzerland (History of Switzerland Series) (reference)

  • Reconstructing Prehistorical Dialects: Initial Vowels in Slavic and Baltic (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, No 91) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Modern Translation: Prehistorical

Language Translations for "prehistorical"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

史前 (Prehistoric). (various references)

   

French

  

préhistorique (prehistoric). (various references)

   

German

  

prähistorischen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

προϊστορικόσ (prehistoric, prohistoric, prohistorical). (various references)

   

Italian

  

preistorico (prehistoric). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

사 시대 (Prehistoric). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ehistoricalpray

   

Portuguese

  

pré-histórico (prehistoric). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

доисторический (prehistoric). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

prehistórico (prehistoric). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

старезний (advanced, age-old, ancient, antiquated, antique, decrepit, prehistoric, senile, winterly, wintry), доісторичний (prehistoric). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Prehistorical

Derivations

Words beginning with "prehistorical": prehistorically. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Prehistorical

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-i-l-o-p-r-r-s-t"

-2 letters: prehistoric, replicators, spirochetal.

-3 letters: aphoristic, archpriest, harlotries, historical, isoplethic, orchestral, parritches, pictorials, polarities, rectorship, replicator, rhetorical, scriptoria, splotchier, triarchies, trochlears.

-4 letters: acroliths, aeroliths, ahistoric, atrophies, calthrops, caprioles, carrioles, chapiters, charities, charriest, chelators, chirpiest, chlorates, chlorites, chorister, chortlers, clarities, clothiers, elicitors, eristical, helicopts, heliports, horsetail, loricates, opacities, operatics, oralities, oratrices, orchestra, particles, pearlitic, pectorals.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-i-l-o-p-r-r-s-t"
 

+2 letters: prehistorically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Prehistorical


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 72 65 68 69 73 74 6F 72 69 63 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110010 01100101 01101000 01101001 01110011 01110100 01101111 01110010 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0065 0068 0069 0073 0074 006F 0072 0069 0063 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50847174758586818475696778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography 		9. Bibliography


  

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