mesolithic

Other forms of mesolithic

plural

mesolithics·

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 mesolithic

What does mesolithic mean?

mesolithic means "middle part of the Stone Age beginning about 15,000 years ago". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mesolithic?

mesolithic has 4 syllables: mes-o-lit-hic. The stress falls on "lit". In IPA it is /ˌmɛzəˈlɪθɪk/.

What is another word for mesolithic?

Close synonyms include Mesolithic Age, Epipaleolithic. 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 mesolithic a common word?

mesolithic 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.

What rhymes with mesolithic?

3 words rhyme with mesolithic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.