stone
Meaning of stone
- hard solid non-metallic mineral matter of which rock is made, especially as a building material.
the houses are built of stone
high stone walls
- a piece of stone shaped for a purpose, especially one of commemoration, ceremony, or demarcation.
a memorial stone
boundary stones
- a hard seed in a cherry, plum, peach, and some other fruits.
- a unit of weight equal to 14 lb (6.35 kg).
I weighed 10 stone
- a natural shade of whitish or brownish-grey.
stone stretch trousers
- throw stones at.
three vehicles were stoned and torched
two people were stoned to death
- remove the stone from (a fruit).
- build, face, or pave with stone.
the honey-stoned, eighteenth-century city
Old English stān (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch steen and German Stein . The verb dates from Middle English (first recorded in stone (sense 1 of the verb)).
Information about stone
- The plural form of stone is: stones.
- Languages in which stone is used:
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Hyphenation of stone
stone
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- stone is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
stone synonyms
Meaning rock:
Meaning gem:
Meaning pit:
Meaning Stone:
Meaning lapidate:
Meaning an inscribed headstone marking a grave:
Meaning a slab of stone set up at the head of a grave, typically inscribed with the name of the dead person:
Meaning a large, flat inscribed stone standing or laid over a grave:
Meaning a flat slab of stone, clay, or wood, used especially for an inscription:
Meaning a statue, building, or other structure erected to commemorate a notable person or event:
Meaning a large single upright block of stone, especially one shaped into or serving as a pillar or monument:
Meaning a tapering stone pillar, typically having a square or rectangular cross section, set up as a monument or landmark:
Meaning a softer, usually edible part of a nut, seed, or fruit stone contained within its shell:
Meaning the unit of reproduction of a flowering plant, capable of developing into another such plant:
Meaning a small hard seed in a fruit:
Translation of stone
- Spanish: grava, piedra, semilla, nuez, lapidar
- French: pierre, noyau, lapider
- Portuguese: pedras, pedra
- Italian: pietra, sasso, nocciolo, nòcciolo, lapidare, stone
- German: Stein, Kern, steinigen, steinern
Anagrams of stone
Etons, Nesto, notes, onset, Seton, seton, steno, tenso, tones
Words that rhyme with stone
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