neolithic
/ˌni.oʊˈlɪθ.ɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.99 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The period of prehistory from circa 8500 to 4500 BCE.
adj
Of or relating to the New Stone Age.
noun
A person who lived during the New Stone Age.
adj
Alternative spelling of Neolithic.
Example Sentences
- "Holonyms: Stone Age < prehistory"
- "Meronyms: Pre-Pottery Neolithic, Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, Pre-Pottery Neolithic B"
- "Tokens are first identified at around the same time as the local peoples changed from a life based on hunting and gathering to one based on agriculture. The tokens, as Schmandt-Besserat says, "were part and parcel of the Neolithic phenomenon; that is, the so-called agricultural revolution." (Before Writing 41)."
- "... I was fascinated by a pair of stories about a Neolithic girl who wrote the first letter, and invented the first alphabet."
- "For the Neolithics, the stone was flint, and it's still impressive to see what they were able to achieve with it."
- "With this thought in his mind, Challenger gave a contemptuous and condescending consent to the proposal that he should grace with his presence a proceeding which was, in his opinion, more fitted to the stone cabin of a neolithic savage than to the serious attention of one who represented the accumulated culture and wisdom of the human race."
Etymology
From neo- + -lithic. Coined by English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, in 1865 as a refinement of the three-age system.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌni.oʊˈlɪθ.ɪk/
- British English: /ˌni.əˈlɪθ.ɪk/