Neolithic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- nēōlĭthīk (US)
- /ˌni.oʊˈlɪθ.ɪk/ (US)
- /ˌni.əʊˈlɪθ.ɪk/ (UK)
- /ˌni.əˈlɪθ.ɪk/ (UK)
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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.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or relating to the New Stone Age.
... I was fascinated by a pair of stories about a Neolithic girl who wrote the first letter, and invented the first alphabet.
2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R28: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).
2001, Duncan J. Melville, “Tokens: the origin of mathematics”, in Mesopotamian Mathematics, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2007:
Deriveds
preneolithic · Neolithically · Neolithic Revolution
Relateds
Translations (30)
de jungsteinzeitlich (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · ko 신석기 (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · fi neoliittinen (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · nn neolittisk (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · la neolithicus (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · uk неоліти́чний (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · de neolithisch (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · it neolitico (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · pt neolítico (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · hi नवपाषाण (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · tr neolitik (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · nb neolittisk (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · gl neolítico (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · uk новокам'яни́й (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · ga Neoiliteach (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · ko 신석기 시대 (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · mt neolitiċi (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · da yngre stenalder (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · pl neolityczny (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · el νεολιθικός (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · cs neolitický (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · es neolítico (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · lv neolīts (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · mt neolitiku (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · ru неолити́ческий (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · fr néolithique (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · ca neolític (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · cmn 新石器時代的 /新石器时代的 (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · ja 新石器時代 (of or relating to the New Stone Age) · be неаліты́чны (of or relating to the New Stone Age)