hone

1. 1.

   a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors

   Broaderwhetstone

Other forms of hone

plural

hones·

past tense

honed·

present participle

honing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hone

What does hone mean?

hone means "sharpen with a hone". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hone?

hone has 1 syllable: hone. In IPA it is /ˈhoʊn/.

What is another word for hone?

Close synonyms include perfect. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hone a common word?

hone is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.