Stone age
name, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A broad prehistoric period during which humans widely used stone for toolmaking.
"Holonym: prehistory"
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of Stone Age. alt-of
"Were it not that folk-lore has almost died out, more than one domestic rite might be traced back to the stone age."
- 3 Any extremely primitive or undeveloped era. figuratively, informal
"If they attack our country, we'll bomb them back to the Stone Age!"
- 4 The time a particular field was introduced and was in its earliest stages of development. figuratively
Example
More examples"Meronyms: Old Stone Age, Paleolithic; Mesolithic; New Stone Age, Neolithic; Pre-Pottery Neolithic, Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, Pre-Pottery Neolithic B; Chalcolithic, Cyprolithic, Copper Age"
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