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iron age
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Iron \I"ron\ ([imac]"[u^]rn), a. [AS. [=i]ren, [=i]sen. See Iron , n.] Of, or made of iron; consisting of iron; as, an iron bar, dust. Resembling iron in color; as, iron blackness. Like iron in hardness, strength, impenetrability, power of endurance, insensibility, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, originally from Greek and Roman mythology, the last and worst age of the world; the archaeological sense of "period in which humans used iron tools and weapons" is from 1879.
Usage examples of iron age.
The Sangreal withdrew its visible presence from the crowds who came to worship, and an iron age succeeded to the happiness which its presence had diffused among the tribes of Britain.
Shortly after the commencement of the iron age, the lake-habitations were abandoned, the only settlement of this later epoch yet discovered being that at Tene, on Lake Neufchatel: and it is a remarkable circumstance, showing the great antiquity of the lake-dwellings, that they are not mentioned by any of the Roman historians.
In the first history they hadn't gotten this far until the Iron Age….
They'd barely begun the great millennia-long migration that would take them all the way to Zululand in the Iron Age, and make them masters of the tropical jungles.
Not all the way to the beginning of the Iron Age, but certainly back to the early eighteenth century.
There will be no sweet clean air for them to breathe in this coming Iron Age, which men are soon to create.