stone age

Speech parts

1. stone age - Noun

2. stone age - Adjective

3. Stone age - Proper noun

Meaning

(archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implements

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Alternative names

stone-age

Synonyms

old-fashioned neolithic rusty age ancient era dated medieval aged primitive obsolete extinct obscure backward archaic
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Antonyms

dapper modern current developed technology commercial
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Examples

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. Christopher Hitchens

Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny, or our population dwindled from a once astronomical size to the mere three billions of today. Heinz von Foerster

Perhaps we could put aside our national, ongoing, post-9/11 Muslim butt-kissing contest and get on with the business at hand: Bombing Syria back to the stone age and then permanently disarming Iran. Ann Coulter

The gorilla-slayer moved out into the glade. Massive, terrible, he was the personification of the primitive, the Stone Age. His mouth yawned in a red cavern of a grin; he bore himself with the haughty arrogance of savage might. Robert E. Howard

A ley line is what might be called a field of force, a trail of telluric energy. There are hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, all over Britain, and they've been around since the Stone Age. Stephen R. Lawhead

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live. William McDonough

Close letter words and terms

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