Stone Age

English

Alternative forms

• stone-age

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: 'stōn āj", IPA: /ˈstəʊn ˌeɪdʒ/, X-SAMPA: /"st@Un %eIdZ/
• (US) enPR: 'stōn āj", IPA: /ˈstoʊn ˌeɪdʒ/, X-SAMPA: /"stoUn %eIdZ/

Proper noun

Stone Age

1. (archaeology) A broad prehistoric period during which humans widely used stone for toolmaking.
2. (figuratively, informal) Any extremely primitive or undeveloped era.
3. (figuratively) The time a particular field was introduced and was in its earliest stages of development.

Synonyms

• (archaeology): Lithic

Hyponyms

• (archaeology): Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic

Coordinate terms

• (archaeology): Iron Age, Bronze Age

See also

• Stone Age on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

prehistoric period

• Arabic: العصر الحجري (ar) (al-ʿaṣr al-ḥajariyy) m
• Armenian: քարի դար (hy) (k’ari dar) 
• Asturian: Edá de Piedra (ast) f
• Catalan: Edat de pedra (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 石器時代 (cmn), 石器时代 (cmn) (shíqì shídài)

• Czech: doba kamenná (cs) f
• Danish: stenalder (da) c
• Dutch: steentijd (nl) m, stenen tijdperk (nl) n
• Esperanto: Ŝtonepoko (eo) m
• Estonian: kiviaeg (et)
• Finnish: kivikausi (fi)
• French: âge de pierre (fr) m
• German: Steinzeit (de) f
• Greek: Εποχή του Λίθου (el) (Epochi to Lithou, Epohi tou Lithou) n 
• Hebrew: תקופת האבן (he)
• Icelandic: steinöld (is) f
• Indonesian: Zaman Batu

• Italian: Età della pietra (it) f
• Japanese: 石器時代 (ja) (せっきじだい, sekki jidai)
• Jèrriais: Âge dé Pièrre m
• Korean: 석기 시대 (ko) (seoggi sidae) (石器時代 (ko))
• Latvian: Akmens laikmets
• Low German: Steentiet m
• Macedonian: камено време (mk) (kámeno vréme) n
• Malay: Zaman Batu (ms)
• Maltese: Żmien il-Ħaġar
• Norwegian: steinalderen (no), stenalderen (no)
• Polish: epoka kamienia (pl) f
• Portuguese: idade da pedra (pt) f
• Romanian: Epoca de Piatră (ro) f
• Russian: каменный век (ru) (kámennyj vek) m 
• Slovene: Kamena doba (sl) f
• Spanish: Edad de Piedra (es) f
• Swedish: stenåldern (sv) c
• Welsh: Oes y Cerrig

informal: any extremely primitive or undeveloped era

• Finnish: kivikausi (fi)
• Macedonian: камено време (mk) (kámeno vréme) n

• Russian: каменный век (ru) (kámennyj vek) m 

figuratively: the time a particular field was introduced

• Finnish: kivikausi (fi)

• Russian: каменный век (ru) (kámennyj vek) m 

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• Latin: Etat lapum? m