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Stone Age (uncountable)
- (archaeology, paleontology) A broad prehistoric period during which humans widely used stone for toolmaking.
- (figuratively, informal) Any extremely primitive or undeveloped era.
If they attack our country, we'll bomb them back to the Stone Age!
- (figuratively) The time a particular field was introduced and was in its earliest stages of development.
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prehistoric period
- Albanian: koha e gurit f (definite)
- Arabic: الْعَصْر الْحَجَرِيّ m (al-ʕaṣr al-ḥajariyy) (definite)
- Armenian: քարի դար (hy) (kʻari dar)
- Asturian: Edá de Piedra f
- Azerbaijani: daş dövrü
- Bashkir: таш быуат (taş bıwat)
- Belarusian: ка́менны век m (kámjenny vjek)
- Bengali: প্রস্তর যুগ (prostor jug)
- Bulgarian: ка́менна епо́ха f (kámenna epóha), ка́менна е́ра f (kámenna éra)
- Burmese: ကျောက်ခေတ် (my) (kyaukhket)
- Catalan: Edat de pedra f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 石器時代／石器时代 (sek6 hei3 si4 doi6)
- Mandarin: 石器時代／石器时代 (zh) (shíqì shídài)
- Czech: doba kamenná (cs) f
- Danish: stenalder c
- Dutch: steentijd (nl) m, stenen tijdperk n
- Erzya: кевпинге (kevpinge)
- Esperanto: ŝtonepoko
- Estonian: kiviaeg
- Finnish: kivikausi (fi)
- French: âge de pierre (fr) m
- Galician: idade de pedra f, Idade de Pedra (gl) f
- Georgian: ქვის ხანა (kvis xana)
- German: Steinzeit (de) f
- Greek: Εποχή του Λίθου (el) n (Epochí tou Líthou)
- Hebrew: תְּקוּפַת הָאֶבֶן (he) f
- Hindi: प्रस्तरयुग (hi) m (prastaryug), पाषाण युग m (pāṣāṇ yug), पाषाणयुग (hi) m (pāṣāṇyug), पाषाणकाल (hi) m (pāṣāṇkāl)
- Hungarian: kőkorszak (hu)
- Icelandic: steinöld (is) f
- Indonesian: Zaman Batu
- Irish: an Chlochaois f
- Italian: età della pietra (it) f
- Japanese: 石器時代 (ja) (せっきじだい, sekki jidai)
- Kazakh: тас дәуірі (tas däuırı)
- Khmer: យុគថ្ម (yuk thmɑɑ), យុគថ្មបំបែក (km) (yuk thmɑɑ bɑmbaek)
- Korean: 석기시대(石器時代) (ko) (seokgisidae)
- Kyrgyz: таш доору (taş dooru)
- Lao: ຍຸກຫີນ (lo) (nyuk hīn)
- Latvian: akmens laikmets m
- Lithuanian: akmens amžius m
- Low German: Steentiet m
- Macedonian: камено време n (kameno vreme)
- Malay: Zaman Batu
- Maltese: Żmien il-Ħaġar
- Maori: Ao Kōwhatu
- Norman: Âge dé Pièrre m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: steinalderen m (definite)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: عَصْرِ حَجَر, عَصْرِ سَنْگ (fa)
- Polish: epoka kamienia (pl) f
- Portuguese: idade da pedra f, Idade da Pedra (pt) f
- Romanian: epoca de piatră (ro) f
- Russian: ка́менный век (ru) m (kámennyj vek)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: камено доба n
- Roman: kameno doba n
- Slovak: kamenná doba f
- Slovene: kamena doba (sl) f
- Spanish: Edad de Piedra (es) f
- Swahili: Zama za Mawe
- Swedish: stenåldern (sv) c
- Tajik: асри санг (asri sang)
- Tatar: таш дәвере (taş däwere)
- Thai: ยุคหิน (th) (yúk–hǐn), สมัยหิน
- Turkish: Taş Devri
- Turkmen: daş asyry
- Ukrainian: кам'яна́ доба́ f (kamʺjaná dobá), кам'яни́й вік m (kamʺjanýj vik)
- Urdu: سَن٘گی دَور m (saṅgī daur)
- Uyghur: تاش دەۋرى (tash dewri)
- Uzbek: tosh davri
- Vietnamese: thời đại đồ đá
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figuratively: the time a particular field was introduced
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