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Prehistoric

Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins; as, the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man.

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Past 84% connected

Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences.

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Past 84% connected

Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences.

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Age noun · 78% connection

The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.

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Ancient adjective · 78% connection

Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied…

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Century noun · 78% connection

A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.

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Chivalric adjective · 78% connection

Relating to chivalry; knightly; chivalrous.

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Chronology noun · 78% connection

The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper d…

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Contemporary adjective · 78% connection

Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.

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Decade noun · 78% connection

A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second…

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Era noun · 78% connection

A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.

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Geological era noun · 78% connection

a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods

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Geological period noun · 78% connection

a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"

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Hundred noun · 78% connection

The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or object…

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Knightly adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit.

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Long time noun · 78% connection

a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years"

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Mediaeval adjective · 78% connection

Of or relating to the Middle Ages; as, mediaeval architecture.

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Medieval unknown · 78% connection

Alt. of Medievalist

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Modern adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern da…

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One C noun · 78% connection

ten 10s

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Period noun · 78% connection

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly…

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Adjunct adjective · 78% connection

Conjoined; attending; consequent.

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Affidavit noun · 78% connection

A sworn statement in writing; a declaration in writing, signed and made upon oath before an authorized magistrate.

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Ante noun · 78% connection

Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.

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Archaean adjective · 78% connection

Ancient; pertaining to the earliest period in geological history.

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Com- unknown · 78% connection

A prefix from the Latin preposition cum, signifying with, together, in conjunction, very, etc. It is used in the form com- before b, m…

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Corniferous adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the lowest period of the Devonian age. (See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called…

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Eve noun · 78% connection

Evening.

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Eventful adjective · 78% connection

Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life.

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Explore verb · 78% connection

To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.

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Fore verb · 78% connection

Journey; way; method of proceeding.

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Historiographer noun · 78% connection

An historian; a writer of history; especially, one appointed or designated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by some governme…

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History noun · 78% connection

A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a nar…

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Mediaevalism noun · 78% connection

The method or spirit of the Middle Ages; devotion to the institutions and practices of the Middle Ages; a survival from the Middle Age…

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Mediaevalist noun · 78% connection

One who has a taste for, or is versed in, the history of the Middle Ages; one in sympathy with the spirit or forms of the Middle Ages.

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Memoirs noun · 78% connection

A memorial account; a history composed from personal experience and memory; an account of transactions or events (usually written in f…

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Morphogeny noun · 78% connection

History of the evolution of forms; that part of ontogeny that deals with the germ history of forms; -- distinguished from physiogeny.

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Morphophyly noun · 78% connection

The tribal history of forms; that part of phylogeny which treats of the tribal history of forms, in distinction from the tribal histor…

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Naturalist noun · 78% connection

One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals.

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