premodern

About 0.44 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Preceding or predating the modern era.

   a premodern Chinese sculpture

Similar words

antemodern precontemporary premedieval preclassical premediaeval pretechnological precolonial preimperial presecular prefactory

Often followed by

societies and times period world europe era society china japan

Word family

pre-Modern pre-modern