Stone

Noun

 * 1)  A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks and boulders.
 * 2) A small piece of stone.
 * 3) A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
 * 4)  (plural: stone) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc.  1 stone ≈ 6.3503 kilograms
 * 5)  The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
 * a peach stone
 * 1)  A hard, stone-like deposit.
 * kidney stone
 * 1) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go.
 * 2) A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
 * 3)  A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
 * 1) A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
 * 2)  A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
 * 1)  A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.

Synonyms

 * (substance): rock
 * (small piece of stone): pebble
 * (hard stone-like deposit): calculus
 * (curling piece): rock

Derived terms

 * birthstone
 * brownstone
 * cast the first stone
 * cobblestone
 * cornerstone
 * gemstone
 * gravestone
 * hailstone
 * headstone
 * keystone
 * limestone


 * lodestone
 * markstone
 * milestone
 * sandstone
 * sink like a stone
 * Smithfield stone
 * soapstone
 * stepping stone
 * touchstone
 * turn to stone
 * whetstone

Verb

 * 1)  To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
 * 2)  To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
 * 3)  To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
 * 4)  To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)

Synonyms

 * lapidate

Adjective

 * 1) Constructed of stone.
 * stone walls
 * 1) Having the appearance of stone.
 * stone pot
 * 1) Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
 * 2) Complete, absolute, of the highest degree.
 * stone free

Adverb

 * 1) As a stone (used with following adjective).
 * My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.
 * 1)  Absolutely, completely (used with following adjective).
 * I went stone crazy after she left.

Derived terms

 * stone cold
 * stone dead
 * stone deaf
 * stony broke

Adjectives for Stone
mossy; sacrificial; senseless; heavy; ragged; jagged; votive; pallid; timeworn; graven; veritable; ribbed; crumbling; moldering; ancient; crystal; shattered; stumbling; quarried; flying; wrought; misshapen; scarlet; flawless; contumelious; cold; miry; typical; sizzling; destructive; corresponding; hollow; coarse; lithographic; sun-heated; precious; dangerous; showering; blasted; unpolished; barren; silent; greasy; monumental; enameled; uneven; rifted; breathing; bruising; solemn; rigid; massive; splintered; nameless; smoldered; chiseled; perfect; priceless.

Verbs for Stone
carve in—; cast — chisel in—; dislodge —; face—; fashion of—; heave—; hew from—; hurl—; inscribe on—; perpetuate in—; project—; quarry—; rib with—; unveil—; work in—; —bruises; —crushes; — erodes; —facets; —s rattle; —rumbles; — supports; —sustains; —wedges.

Thesaurus
Irish confetti, Lydian stone, Tarmac, Tarvia, aa, abyssal rock, acorn, adamant, adamantine, adobe, agate, alexandrite, amethyst, anklet, anthraconite, aplite, aquamarine, arch, armlet, ashlar, asphalt, aventurine, bakestone, bangle, barrow, basalt, basanite, beads, bedrock, beetlestone, behead, berry, beryl, bijou, bird seed, bitumen, bituminous macadam, black sheep, blacktop, blemish, block lava, bloodstone, blow to pieces, blow up, board, bola, bolt, bondstone, bone, boomerang, booze up, boozify, boundary stone, bowstring, bracelet, brain, brash, brass, breastpin, breccia, brick, brickbat, bricks and mortar, brilliant, brimstone, bring down, brooch, brownstone, buhr, buhrstone, burn, burn to death, bust, cairn, cairngorm, capstone, carbuncle, carnelian, cement, cenotaph, chain, chalcedony, chalk, chaplet, charm, chatelaine, chrysoberyl, chrysolite, circle, citrine, clapboard, clinker, cobble, cobblestone, column, concrete, conglomerate, copestone, copperplate, coral, cornerstone, coronet, countermissile, covering materials, crag, crock, cromlech, cross, crown, crucify, crystal, cup, curb, curbing, curbstone, cut down, cut to pieces, cyclolith, deal a deathblow, decapitate, decollate, defenestrate, demantoid, dendrite, diabase, diadem, diamond, disintegrate, dolmen, dolomite, doorstone, dripstone, drop, druid stone, duplicate plate, eaglestone, earring, edgestone, egg, electrocute, electrotype, emerald, emery rock, execute, face, fell, ferroconcrete, festooned pahoehoe, firebrick, flag, flagging, flagstone, flaxseed, flint, flintlike, flinty, floatstone, flooring, fob, footstone, foreign body, foreign intruder, frag, fruit, fuddle, garnet, garrote, gem, gem stone, girasol, give the quietus, glass, glaze, gneiss, goldstone, grain, granite, granitelike, granitic, grave, gravel, gravestone, grindstone, grit, gritrock, gritstone, guillotine, gun down, hairstone, harlequin opal, hayseed, headstone, heart of oak, heliotrope, hoarstone, hyacinth, igneous rock, impurity, incinerate, inflict capital punishment, inscription, intruder, iron, ironstone, jade, jadestone, jargoon, jasper, jewel, jugulate, kerb, kerbstone, kernel, keystone, lapidate, lapis lazuli, lath, lath and plaster, lava, lay low, limestone, linseed, lithic, living rock, locked-up page, locket, lodestone, macadam, magma, mantlerock, marble, marblelike, marker, masonry, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, metamorphic rock, milestone, milkstone, millstone, misfit, missile, monkey wrench, monolith, monument, moonstone, morganite, mortar, mote, mound, nails, necklace, necrology, nose ring, nut, oak, obelisk, obituary, obsidian, oddball, oilstone, onyx, opal, overtake, pahoehoe, paper, pavement, pavestone, paving, paving material, paving stone, pellet, pelt, peridot, petrified, petrogenic, phonolite, pickle, pillar, pillow lava, pin, pip, pistol, pit, pitchstone, plank, plaque, plasma, plaster, plasters, plastic plate, plate, poleax, pollute, porphyry, precious stone, prestressed concrete, printing plate, printing surface, prize, projectile, pudding stone, pumice, put to death, pyramid, quartz, quartzite, regolith, reliquary, remembrance, rhinestone, ribbon, riddle, ring, road metal, rock, rocket, roofage, roofing, ropy lava, rose quartz, rostral column, rottenstone, rubber plate, rubble, rubblestone, rubstone, ruby, sandstone, sapphire, sard, sardonyx, sarsen, schist, scoria, scree, sedimentary rock, seed, semiprecious stone, serpentine, shaft, shake, shale, sheathe, shelly pahoehoe, shingle, shoot, shoot down, shoot to death, shotgun, shrine, siding, silence, slabstone, slate, slaty, sliver, snakestone, soapstone, souse, speck, spinel, spinel ruby, splinter, stab to death, stalactite, stalagmite, starstone, steatite, steel, steel plate, stela, stepping-stone, stepstone, stereotype, stew, stickpin, stinkstone, stone to death, strangle, strike dead, stupa, swack, tablet, talus, tarmacadam, testimonial, thatch, throw stick, throwing-stick, tiara, tile, tilestone, tiling, tipsify, tomb, tombstone, topaz, tope, torpedo, torque, touchstone, trap, traprock, trophy, tufa, tuff, turquoise, typeform, vaporize, veneer, waddy, wall in, wall up, walling, wallpaper, wampum, washboard, weatherboard, weed, whetstone, whitestone, wristband, wristlet, zincograph, zincotype

Etymology
From stan:, ston:, from  stan:, from  (cf. Dutch steen:, German Stein:), from  (compare Latin stiria: ‘icicle’, Russian стена:, Ancient Greek στῖον:, undefined: ‘tallow’, Sanskrit undefined: ‘it hardens’).

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian:
 * Asturian: piedra
 * Avestan:
 * Azeri:
 * Basque: harri
 * Breton: maen, mein
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ကျောက်
 * Catalan: pedra, roca
 * Chamicuro:
 * Cherokee: ᏅᏳ (nvyu)
 * Chinese: 石 (shí)
 * Chuvash: чул (chul)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Eshtehardi:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Guaraní: ita
 * Hawaiian: haku
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: petro
 * Ilocano: bato
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: petra
 * Irish: cloch f2
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: (いし)
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean: 돌 (dol)
 * Kurdish:, , , ,
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin: ,


 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Logudorese Sardinian: preda
 * Low Saxon: steen
 * Luhya:
 * Luxembourgish: Steen
 * Macedonian:
 * Malagasy: vato
 * Malay:
 * Manx: clagh
 * Maori:
 * Middle Persian:
 * Northern Sami: geađgi
 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old English:
 * Old Persian:
 * Parthian:
 * Persian:
 * Pitjantjatjara: apu
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Santali:
 * Scots: stane
 * Scottish Gaelic: clach
 * Serbian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bato
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu: (raayi)
 * Thai:, ศิลา (silā)
 * Tupinambá: itá
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: stien
 * Yiddish: שטיין


 * Altai:
 * Arabic: (ħájar)
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Bashkir:
 * Breton: kailhenn, kailhoù
 * Bulgarian:
 * Buryat:
 * Catalan:
 * Chagatai:
 * Chuvash: чул
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dolgan:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * Gagauz:
 * German:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: पत्थर (pat’thar)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: cloch f2
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 小石 (こいし, koishi)
 * Kalmyk:
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Karakalpak:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khakas:
 * Korean: 돌 (dol)
 * Kumyk:


 * Kurdish:, , ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin:
 * Luo:
 * Macedonian:
 * Marathi: दगड (dagadd)
 * Mongolian:
 * Nogai:
 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian Bokmål:
 * Old Church Slavonic: ,
 * Ottoman Turkish: ,
 * Persian:, سنگریزه,
 * Polish: kamyk
 * Portuguese:, , , seixo
 * Romanian: piatră
 * Russian:
 * Shor:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: (raayi)
 * Thai:
 * Tupinambá: itá
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan:
 * Ukrainian: камінець
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yakut:


 * Armenian:
 * Chinese: 宝石 (bǎoshí)
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 보석 (寶石, boseok)


 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: edelstein
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese: pedra preciosa, gema, pedra
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: (maNi),  (ratnam)


 * Russian: стоун


 * Swahili:


 * Arabic: (nawā)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: pit
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Kern
 * Icelandic:
 * Macedonian:


 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: هسته
 * Polish: pestka
 * Portuguese: caroço
 * Russian: косточка
 * Slovak: kôstka
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: kärna


 * Armenian:
 * Breton: maen-gravell, mein-gravell
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 石 (shí)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,


 * Korean: 결석 (結石, gyeolseok)
 * Kurdish:, , ,
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: piatră
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Kurdish: ,


 * Macedonian:
 * Romanian: piatră
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: kivenharmaa


 * Swahili:


 * Finnish:


 * Swahili:


 * : אֶבֶן

Verb

 * Arabic: (rajama)
 * Armenian: քարկոծել
 * Breton: labezañ, meinata
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: stenigen
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: megkövez
 * Interlingua: lapidar


 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: каменува
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: سنگسار کردن
 * Polish: kamienować
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Slovak: kameňovať
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: llabyddio


 * Czech: vypeckovat
 * Finnish: poistaa kivi
 * French:


 * Polish:
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish:


 * Swahili:


 * Dutch: zich drogeren
 * Finnish: (narcotics);  (alcohol)
 * French:
 * German: sich berauschen


 * Hungarian: belő
 * Macedonian: стонира
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: bli stenad

Adjective

 * Armenian: քարաշեն
 * Breton: maen
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: kamenný
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: kivinen, kivi-
 * French: de pierre, en pierre
 * German:
 * Interlingua: de petra, petrose
 * Italian:, ,


 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Persian: سنگی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: de pedra, pétreo
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, pétreo
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: sten-, av sten
 * Telugu: (raati)


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: kivijäljitelmä-
 * German:
 * Italian:, ,


 * Norwegian: steinaktig
 * Persian: سنگی
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: (raati)

Adverb

 * Finnish:
 * Persian:


 * Swahili:

Derived terms

 * Bath stone
 * birthstone
 * Black Stone
 * Blarney Stone
 * bluestone
 * bondstone
 * cast the first stone
 * china stone
 * cinnamon stone
 * cobblestone
 * cornerstone
 * curling stone
 * dolostone
 * dripstone
 * dry-stone
 * eolith
 * fieldstone
 * flagstone
 * footstone
 * foundation stone
 * freestone
 * gallstone
 * gravestone
 * grindstone
 * hard as stone
 * headstone
 * heathstone
 * keystone
 * kidney stone
 * kill two birds with one stone
 * leave no stone unturned
 * lodestone
 * milestone
 * oilstone
 * paving stone
 * Philosopher's Stone, Philosophers' Stone
 * pipestone
 * pizza stone
 * precious stone
 * pudding stone
 * rhinestone
 * rolling stone
 * Rosetta Stone
 * soapstone
 * standing stone
 * stepping stone
 * Stone Age
 * stone bass
 * stone boat
 * stone cold


 * stone crab
 * stone curlew
 * stone dead
 * stone deaf
 * stone fruit
 * stone hands
 * stone lily
 * stone marten
 * stone mint
 * stone parsley
 * stone pine
 * stone pit
 * stone shoot
 * stone the crows
 * stone-blind
 * stonebreaker
 * stone-broke
 * stonecast
 * stonechat
 * stone-cold
 * stonecrop
 * stonecutter
 * stoned
 * stone-dead
 * stone-deaf
 * stone-faced
 * stonefish
 * stonefly
 * stoneground
 * stone-ground
 * stonehearted
 * Stonehenge
 * stoneless
 * stonemason
 * stoner
 * stoneroller
 * stone's throw
 * stonewall
 * stonewall
 * stonewaller
 * stoneware
 * stonewashed
 * stonework
 * stonewort
 * stoneyard
 * throw stones
 * touchstone
 * whetstone
 * whinstone

Related terms

 * acrolith
 * lapidary
 * lapidate
 * litharge
 * lithiasis
 * lithic
 * lithify
 * lithography
 * lithoid
 * lithotomy
 * lithotripsy


 * lithotripter
 * menhir
 * monolithic
 * sangar
 * sardonyx
 * sarsen
 * saxatile
 * saxicolous
 * saxifrage
 * trilithon

Anagrams

 * notes, onset, set on, seton, SONET, steno, tones