prehistoric
adjective/ˌpriːhɪˈstɔːrɪk/
Frequency rank: #8,417 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
relating to the time before written history was recorded.
Example sentence
The museum displayed prehistoric tools made by early humans thousands of years ago.
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