stone age

Questions about stone age

What does stone age mean?

stone age means "(archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implements".

Is stone age a common word?

stone age is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stone age come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.