Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A period of human culture between the Stone Age and the Iron Age, characterized by the use of weapons and implements made of bronze. See Usage Note at Three Age system.
Wiktionary
- n. archaeology A period in a civilization's development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze.
- n. mythology One of the Classical Ages of Man, associated with warfare.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. an age of the world which followed the stone age, and was characterized by the use of implements and ornaments of copper or bronze.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (classical mythology) the third age of the world, marked by war and violence
- n. (archeology) a period between the Stone and Iron Ages, characterized by the manufacture and use of bronze tools and weapons
Examples
“Twelve months earlier, John had found an exquisite Bronze Age axe-head and several bronze buttons at the same spot and felt a strong hunch there was something very special about this particular patch of the enormous beach.”
“Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age — some Roman things, of course — Saxon, a mediaeval pot or two — it was not rubbish — nearly so, not quite.”
“This boy afterwards became Assistant Keeper in the Department of Archaeology in the University Museum at Padmancaster, and wrote a standard work on Bronze Age Survivals in Britain.”
“It comes from the Bronze Age of tractors, a beautiful, cumbersome, elaborate machine, all flywheels and pulleys, with a rude grey bulbous bonnet, a stout chimney of beaten tin and an office typist’s chair adapted as the driving seat.”
“Bones of a Bronze Age warrior, unearthed in Skyros by Cimon, were unhesitatingly hailed as Theseus 'on the strength of their size alone.”
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