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say it: stohn
stone is a noun, verb and adjective meaning "a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter". It carries 16 recorded senses.
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
“he threw a rock at me”
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
“that mountain is solid rock”
“stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries”
a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry
“he had the gem set in a ring for his wife”
“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”
United Kingdom
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”
of any of various dull tannish or grey colors
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stone come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.