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Chalcolithic

/ˈkælkoʊˌlɪθɪk/

Chalcolithic adjective: synonym of Eneolithic.

Adjective

Chalcolithic (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of Eneolithic.
    • The transitional period of raiding and warfare, which seems to have disrupted the life of villages in the Chalcolithic period, stimulated the growth of larger and larger defensive settlements.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 161
    Synonyms:
    Eneolithic

Proper noun

Chalcolithic

  1. The Chalcolithic period; the age between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age.
    • Such an economy spreads mobile pastoralist speech traditions not only by conquest but also as settled populations shift language in response to new incentives. To the nomads of the Chalcolithic, farmers could be useful allies.2025 December 12, Tom Hercules Davies, “Horses, Wheels, Languages: Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic Epic on the Eurasian Steppe”, in The Classical Quarterly, volume 75, number 1, page 12

Chalcolithic meaning in Hindi and Tamil

Chalcolithic in Hindi

Chalcolithic
ताम्रयुग tāmrayug

Chalcolithic in Tamil

செம்புக்காலம்

Synonyms of Chalcolithic

Origin of Chalcolithic

From chalco- + -lith + -ic.

Questions about Chalcolithic

What does Chalcolithic mean?
Chalcolithic means synonym of Eneolithic.
What is Chalcolithic in Hindi?
Chalcolithic in Hindi is ताम्रयुग (tāmrayug). See Chalcolithic meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Chalcolithic?
Chalcolithic can be an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Chalcolithic?
Chalcolithic is pronounced /ˈkælkoʊˌlɪθɪk/.

Words near Chalcolithic in the dictionary

  1. chalcographs
  2. chalcography
  3. chalcohalide
  4. chalcohalides
  5. chalcolite
  6. Chalcolithic
  7. chalcomenite
  8. chalcomycin
  9. chalconaringenin
  10. chalconatronite
  11. chalcone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chalcolithic (page history and authors); ताम्रयुग (Hindi) (page history and authors); chalcolithic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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