NEOLITHIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Neolithic mean? 

• NEOLITHIC (noun)
  The noun NEOLITHIC has 1 sense:

1. latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere)

  Familiarity information: NEOLITHIC used as a noun is very rare.

• NEOLITHIC (adjective)
  The adjective NEOLITHIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to the most recent period of the Stone Age (following the mesolithic)

  Familiarity information: NEOLITHIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEOLITHIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Neolithic; Neolithic Age; New Stone Age

Instance hypernyms:

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Holonyms ("Neolithic" is a part of...):

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

• NEOLITHIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the most recent period of the Stone Age (following the mesolithic)

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

evidence of neolithic settlements

Pertainym:

Neolithic Age (latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere))

 Context examples 

Meanwhile, we shall put the case aside until more accurate data are available, and devote the rest of our morning to the pursuit of neolithic man.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Warming winter temperatures led to rapid environmental changes that allowed the northward expansion of Neolithic farmers toward mainland Europe, and the rapid population of the continent.

(Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region's past, NSF)

While many of the remains studied have been repatriated, the data let scientists assemble a detailed chronology of the region's Neolithic Demographic Transition, in which stone tools reflect an agricultural transition from cutting meat to pounding grain.

(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)