palaeolithic

1. 1.

   of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic)

   “paleolithic artifacts”

   Synonymspaleolithic

Other forms of palaeolithic

plural

palaeolithics·

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 palaeolithic

What does palaeolithic mean?

palaeolithic means "second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,000 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in palaeolithic?

palaeolithic has 6 syllables: pa-la-e-o-li-thic. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for palaeolithic?

Close synonyms include Paleolithic Age, Paleolithic, paleolithic. 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 palaeolithic a common word?

palaeolithic 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.