epipaleolithic

1. 1.

   middle part of the Stone Age beginning about 15,000 years ago

   SynonymsMesolithic AgeMesolithic

   Broadertime period

   Part ofStone Age

Other forms of epipaleolithic

plural

epipaleolithics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about epipaleolithic

What does epipaleolithic mean?

epipaleolithic means "middle part of the Stone Age beginning about 15,000 years ago".

How many syllables are in epipaleolithic?

epipaleolithic has 7 syllables: e-pi-pa-le-o-li-thic. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for epipaleolithic?

Close synonyms include Mesolithic Age, Mesolithic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is epipaleolithic a common word?

epipaleolithic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.