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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of or relating to the most recent period of the Stone Age (following the mesolithic); "evidence of neolithic settlements" n
1: latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere) [syn: Neolithic Age, Neolithic, New Stone Age]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1865 1. capitalized of or relating to the latest period of the Stone Age characterized by polished stone implements 2. belonging to an earlier age and now outmoded

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. of or relating to the later Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed. Etymology: NEO- + Gk lithos stone

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Neolithic Ne`o*lith"ic, a. [Neo- + -lith + -ic.] (Arch[ae]ol. & Geol.) Of or pertaining to, or designating, an era characterized by late remains in stone. The Neolithic era includes the latter half of the ``Stone age;'' the human relics which belong to it are associated with the remains of animals not yet extinct. The kitchen middens of Denmark, the lake dwellings of Switzerland, and the stockaded islands, or ``crannogs,'' of the British Isles, belong to this era. --Lubbock.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also neolithic Neolithic is used to describe things relating to the period when people had started farming but still used stone for making weapons and tools. ...neolithic culture. ...the monument was Stone Age or Neolithic. ADJ

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see Neolithic