Definition of STONE

stone

Plural: stone, stones

Noun

  • a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
  • 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"
  • material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
    • "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"
  • a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry
    • "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones"
  • 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"
  • 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 jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)
  • United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
  • United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
  • United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
  • United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946)
  • United States architect (1902-1978)
  • a lack of feeling or expression or movement
    • "he must have a heart of stone"
    • "her face was as hard as stone"
  • A hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material.
  • A piece of such material: a rock or a pebble.
  • A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
  • A unit of weight equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight. Abbreviated as st.
  • The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
  • A hard, stone-like deposit.
  • A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.
  • A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
  • A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
  • A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
  • A mirror, or its glass.
  • A testicle.
  • A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing.

Verb

Verb Forms: stoned, stoning, stones

  • To pelt or hit with stones; to remove the pit from fruit.
  • kill by throwing stones at
    • "People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock"
  • remove the pits from
  • To pelt with stones; especially, to kill by pelting with stones.
  • To wall or wall up with stones.
  • To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
  • To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
  • Especially of cannabis or narcotics: To intoxicate. (Usually in passive)
  • To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
  • To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.

Adjective Satellite

  • of any of various dull tannish or grey colors

Adj

  • Constructed of stone.
  • Having the appearance of stone.
  • Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
  • Used as an intensifier.
  • Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.

Adv

  • As a stone (used with following adjective).
  • Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).

Examples

  • a peach stone
  • Before they did the setup on the machining center, they stoned the table to knock down any nicked burrs.
  • British people measure their weight in stones and pounds. I weigh eight stone five.
  • He chose to STONE his opponent’s potential triple-word lane by blocking it with a low-scoring word.
  • I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind.
  • I went stone crazy after she left.
  • My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.
  • She got stoned to death after they found her.
  • She is one stone fox.
  • stone butch
  • stone femme
  • stone pot
  • stone walls
  • stoned to death

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English ston, stone, stan, from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”).
Cognate with Scots stane (“stone”), Saterland Frisian Steen (“stone”), West Frisian stien (“stone”), Dutch steen (“stone”), German Low German Steen (“stone”), German Stein (“stone”), Danish and Swedish sten, Norwegian stein (“stone”), Icelandic steinn (“stone”). Compare also Russian стена́ (stená, “wall”), Ancient Greek στία (stía, “pebble”), στέαρ (stéar, “tallow”), Albanian shtëng (“hardened or pressed matter”), Sanskrit स्त्यायते (styāyate, “it hardens”)). Doublet of stain, stean, and stein.

Synonyms

Edward Durell Stone, endocarp, gem, gemstone, Harlan F. Stone, Harlan Fisk Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone, Harlan Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone, lapidate, Lucy Stone, Oliver Stone, pit, rock, ;, calculus, chill, chill out, chillax, daydream, destone#Verb, hang out, hard stone-like deposit, imposing stone, pebble, petra, pip, pit#Verb, pyrena, pyrene, rilek, seed pit, stean, stonen, veg out

Antonyms

pillow princess

Scrabble Score: 5

stone: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
stone: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
stone: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 6

stone: valid Words With Friends Word