Stone Age

English

Alternative forms

• stone-age

Pronunciation

• (RP) 'stōn āj", /ˈstəʊn ˌeɪdʒ/, /"st@Un %eIdZ/
• (US) 'stōn āj", /ˈstoʊn ˌeɪdʒ/, /"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

Coordinate terms

• (archaeology): Iron Age, Bronze Age

See also

• Stone Age on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

prehistoric period

Arabic: العصر الحجري (ar) (al-3aSr al-Hajariy) 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 (ee) Finnish: kivikausi (fi) French: âge de la pierre (fr) m. German: Steinzeit (de) f. Greek: Εποχή του Λίθου (Epochi to Lithou, Epohi tou Lithou) n. (el) Hebrew: תקופת האבן (he)

Indonesian: Zaman Batu Italian: Età della pietra (it) f. Japanese: 石器時代 (ja) (せっきじだい, sekki jidai) Korean: 석기 시대 (ko) (seoggi sidae) (石器時代 (ko)) Latvian: Akmens laikmets Low Saxon: Steentiet m. 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)

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.