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Word entry · 10 letters

prehistory

Best crossword clue

"Before writing"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPart of speech nounSorted ehioprrstyStarts with PEnds with Y2 cluesCommon crossword word
1P2R3E4H5I6S7T8O9R10Y

Definitions

  1. The period before written records.

Word origin

From pre- (“before”) + history, first attested in the Foreign Quarterly Review in 1836, after the model of prehistoric, from French préhistorique.

Used in a sentence

  • “We don’t find evidence for that sort of thing anywhere in prehistory.”
  • I was a town boy through and through. The country belonged to a vague pre-history.
  • Psychologists... are mostly bad historians, inventing—as Freud has done—their pre-history to suit their theories.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Before writing10 letters
02Before records10 letters

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