prehistoric

Word family (noun) historian history prehistory (adjective) historic prehistoric historical (adverb) historically

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Historyprehistoricpre‧his‧tor‧ic /ˌpriːhɪˈstɒrɪk◂ $ -ˈstɔː-, -ˈstɑː-/ adjective 1 SHrelating to the time in history before anything was written down prehistoric burial grounds prehistoric animals2 OLD-FASHIONEDvery old-fashioned – used humorously a prehistoric attitude towards womenExamples from the Corpusprehistoric• Frazer writes about the ceremonial king of so many prehistoric agricultural societies.• What can we learn from twenty prehistoric burial chambers, which we call cists, and which have been uncovered up to now?• prehistoric cave drawings• There are some ruins down there and some prehistoric engravings in the rock faces.• A number of authoritative scholars seriously question the propriety of interpreting prehistoric remains by reference to the customs of modern primitive peoples.• There is at least one other prehistoric ridgeway on sheet 145.

单词	prehistoric
释义	prehistoric Word family (noun) historian history prehistory (adjective) historic prehistoric historical (adverb) historically From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Historyprehistoricpre‧his‧tor‧ic /ˌpriːhɪˈstɒrɪk◂ $ -ˈstɔː-, -ˈstɑː-/ adjective 1 SHrelating to the time in history before anything was written down prehistoric burial grounds prehistoric animals2 OLD-FASHIONEDvery old-fashioned – used humorously a prehistoric attitude towards womenExamples from the Corpusprehistoric• Frazer writes about the ceremonial king of so many prehistoric agricultural societies.• What can we learn from twenty prehistoric burial chambers, which we call cists, and which have been uncovered up to now?• prehistoric cave drawings• There are some ruins down there and some prehistoric engravings in the rock faces.• A number of authoritative scholars seriously question the propriety of interpreting prehistoric remains by reference to the customs of modern primitive peoples.• There is at least one other prehistoric ridgeway on sheet 145.
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