iron periodn.

Brit.

/ˈʌɪən ˌpɪərɪəd/, U.S.

/ˈaɪ(ə)rn ˌpɪriəd/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: iron adj., period n.

Etymology: < iron adj. + period n. Compare Iron Age n.¹ and discussion at that entry.In sense 2 ultimately after Danish jernalder (see Iron Age n.¹).

1. A mythological age of iron; the last and worst period of humankind following the golden, silver, brazen, and (sometimes) heroic periods; = Iron Age n.¹ 1. Cf. iron adj. 6. Now rare.

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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > Iron Age

iron period1775

Iron Age1845

1775 D. Doig Let. 12 Mar. in Two Lett. Savage State (1792) ii. 114 The reign of the gods and demi-gods in Egypt, evidently point[s] out the golden and silver ages,..as the reign of..mortals does the brazen and iron periods.

1851 tr. in Dublin Rev. June 535 The acknowledged close of the four ages of the world, or of the golden, silver, brazen, and iron periods.

1860 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 324 Sedulius, and writers of the brazen and iron periods of Roman literature, had been exchanged for the authentic models of the Augustan age.

1992 tr. in Wilson Q. Winter 127/1 The painful rupture in culture—the..darkness that divided the literature of the 19th-century Golden Age and the early 20th-century Silver Age from our barbaric iron period—was traumatic for literature and all the other arts.

2. Archaeology. With the. Frequently with capital initial(s). = Iron Age n.¹ 3.Sometimes subdivided into the Early, Middle, and Late Iron Periods.

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the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > prehistoric periods

dark ages1842

Iron Age1845

iron period1847

stone period1849

lithic age1862

Aurignac1863

stone age1864

three ages1866

Palaeolithic1869

Middle Stone Age1870

prehistory1871

stone era1873

Siwalik1877

Neolithic1878

hemera1893

Mesvinian1909

Mesolithic1931

Abbevillian1937

Devensian1968

Creswellian1969

dryas1975

1847 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1845–7 3 331 Remains from the iron period.

1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. iii. iv. 431 During this era, to which the name of Iron Period is applied.

1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour i. 3 The third or ‘Iron Period’, when bronze generally was superseded by iron.

1930 Jrnl. County Louth Archæol. Soc. 7 190 There is not..any considerable similar evidence of the use of arrows in either the Bronze or Iron periods.

1979 Anatolian Stud. 29 138 The presence of Phoenician pottery in increasing percentages at Tarsus from the Middle Iron Period (c. 850 B.C.) into the post-Assyrian phase.

2011 J. A. Winters Oligarchy ii. 44 The Castro Culture on the Iberian Peninsula in the Late Bronze and Early Iron period.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	iron period
释义	iron periodn. Brit. /ˈʌɪən ˌpɪərɪəd/, U.S. /ˈaɪ(ə)rn ˌpɪriəd/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: iron adj., period n. Etymology: < iron adj. + period n. Compare Iron Age n.¹ and discussion at that entry.In sense 2 ultimately after Danish jernalder (see Iron Age n.¹). 1. A mythological age of iron; the last and worst period of humankind following the golden, silver, brazen, and (sometimes) heroic periods; = Iron Age n.¹ 1. Cf. iron adj. 6. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > Iron Age iron period1775 Iron Age1845 1775 D. Doig Let. 12 Mar. in Two Lett. Savage State (1792) ii. 114 The reign of the gods and demi-gods in Egypt, evidently point[s] out the golden and silver ages,..as the reign of..mortals does the brazen and iron periods. 1851 tr. in Dublin Rev. June 535 The acknowledged close of the four ages of the world, or of the golden, silver, brazen, and iron periods. 1860 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 324 Sedulius, and writers of the brazen and iron periods of Roman literature, had been exchanged for the authentic models of the Augustan age. 1992 tr. in Wilson Q. Winter 127/1 The painful rupture in culture—the..darkness that divided the literature of the 19th-century Golden Age and the early 20th-century Silver Age from our barbaric iron period—was traumatic for literature and all the other arts. 2. Archaeology. With the. Frequently with capital initial(s). = Iron Age n.¹ 3.Sometimes subdivided into the Early, Middle, and Late Iron Periods. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > prehistoric periods dark ages1842 Iron Age1845 iron period1847 stone period1849 lithic age1862 Aurignac1863 stone age1864 three ages1866 Palaeolithic1869 Middle Stone Age1870 prehistory1871 stone era1873 Siwalik1877 Neolithic1878 hemera1893 Mesvinian1909 Mesolithic1931 Abbevillian1937 Devensian1968 Creswellian1969 dryas1975 1847 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1845–7 3 331 Remains from the iron period. 1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. iii. iv. 431 During this era, to which the name of Iron Period is applied. 1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour i. 3 The third or ‘Iron Period’, when bronze generally was superseded by iron. 1930 Jrnl. County Louth Archæol. Soc. 7 190 There is not..any considerable similar evidence of the use of arrows in either the Bronze or Iron periods. 1979 Anatolian Stud. 29 138 The presence of Phoenician pottery in increasing percentages at Tarsus from the Middle Iron Period (c. 850 B.C.) into the post-Assyrian phase. 2011 J. A. Winters Oligarchy ii. 44 The Castro Culture on the Iberian Peninsula in the Late Bronze and Early Iron period. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1775
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