stone's throw

1. 1.

   a short distance

   “it's only a step to the drugstore”

   Synonymsstep

   Broadersmall indefinite quantity

Questions about stone's throw

What does stone's throw mean?

stone's throw means "a short distance".

What is another word for stone's throw?

Close synonyms include step. 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 stone's throw a common word?

stone's throw is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.