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neolithic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun neolithic has 1 sense
- neolithic(n = noun.time) neolithic age, new stone age - latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere); Array is a kind of period, period of time, time period
is a part of stone age
Adjective neolithic has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
neolithic, a. [Neo- + -lith + -ic.].
Of or pertaining to, or designating, an era characterized by late remains in stone; the late stone age. Estimated as beginning around 9000 b. c. in the Middle East, this period is characterized by the beginnings of farming, the domestication of animals, and the manufacture of textiles and pottery. [1913 Webster]
"The Neolithic era includes the latter half of the “Stone age;” the human relics which belong to it are associated with the remains of animals not yet extinct. The kitchen middens of Denmark, the lake dwellings of Switzerland, and the stockaded islands, or “crannogs,” of the British Isles, belong to this era."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
neolithic, adj. of or relating to the later Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed.
Etymology
NEO- + Gk lithos stone
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