stone
/stoʊ̯n/noun, verb, adjective1 syllable
Stone means: United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946).
Synonyms for stone25
noun, as in United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)
noun, as in United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
noun, as in a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry
noun, as in the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
noun, as in United States architect (1902-1978)
noun, as in United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
noun, as in United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
noun, as in a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
noun, as in material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
verb, as in kill by throwing stones at
verb, as in remove the pits from
adjective, as in of any of various dull tannish or grey colors
What does stone mean?15
noun
United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)
United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry“he had the gem set in a ring for his wife”
the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed“you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking”
United States architect (1902-1978)
United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter“he threw a rock at me”
material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust“that mountain is solid rock”
building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose“he wanted a special stone to mark the site”
an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds“a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone”
a lack of feeling or expression or movement“he must have a heart of stone”
adjective
of any of various dull tannish or grey colors
verb
kill by throwing stones at“People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock”
remove the pits from“pit plums and cherries”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with stone?35
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Stone in a sentence
- Dripping water wears away a stone not with its strength, but with its constancy.bluepie88
- From a distance, that stone looks like a person's face.CK
- For a moment he stood motionless, as if turned to stone.Dejo
- In water, wood will float and stone will sink.Obado
- Seen from a distance, the stone looks like a human face.CK
- A stone once cast, and a word once spoken, cannot be recalled.auxitt
- Examples of drupes - also called stone fruits - include cherries, damsons, olives, dates, and apricots.Vanilla
- The tree is rotten and stone dead, and could fall at any time.eishiya
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Forms of stone
as a noun
- plural
- stones
as a verb
- past tense
- stoned
- present participle
- stoning
- third-person singular
- stones
- past participle
- stoned