prehistory

countable uncountable excessive humorous as pre-history often

Japanese Meaning

文字記録が始まる前の時代、すなわち世界各地で書かれた記録が残っていない時代やその出来事、状態。 / その時代、すなわち先史時代を対象とする研究や学問の分野。

The museum's exhibit on prehistory drew crowds curious about human origins.

その博物館の文字記録以前に関する展示は、人類の起源に興味を持つ来館者を集めました。

Sense（1）

The time before written records in any area of the world; the events and conditions of those times.

Sense（2）

The study of those times.

Sense（3）

(humorous, hyperbolic) Any past time (even recent) treated as such a distant, unknowable era.

I was a town boy through and through. The country belonged to a vague pre-history.

Sense（4）

(often as pre-history) The history leading up to some event, condition, etc.

Psychologists... are mostly bad historians, inventing—as Freud has done—their pre-history to suit their theories.

prehistories

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