# stone
## English
### 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”).
See also West Frisian stien, Saterland Frisian Steen, Dutch steen, German Stein, Danish and Swedish sten, Norwegian stein; 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 stein.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /stəʊn/
* Audio (Received Pronunciation):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /stoʊn/
* Audio (US):(file)
* (New Zealand) IPA: /stɐʉn/
* Rhymes: -əʊn

### Noun

stone (countable and uncountable, plural stones or (UK colloquial, as unit of weight) stone)
* (uncountable, geology) A hard earthen substance that can form rocks.
** c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 143, column 2:Toad, that vnder cold ſtone, / Dayes and Nights ha’s thirty one: / Sweltred Venom ſleeping got, / Boyle thou firſt i’th’ charmed pot.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 20:1:The first day of the weeke, commeth Mary Magdalene earely when it was yet darke, vnto the Sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the Sepulchre.
** 1858, Edward Thornton, A Gazetteer of the Territories Under the Government of the East India Company and of the Native States on the Continent of India‎, W. H. Allen & Co., page 22:It is about 2,500 yards in circuit, is built of red stone, and, according to Von Orlich, is now " a bastioned quinquangle ; the ancient walls with semicircular bastions face the two streams ; the land side is quite regular, and consists of two bastions, and a half-bastion with three ravelins," and stands higher than any ground in face of it.
** 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
* A piece of such material: a rock or a pebble.
* A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
** c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], page 180, column 1:[…] Ineſtimable Stones, vnvalewed Iewels […]
* (British) 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.
** 1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia, page 202:Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6+$^1$⁄$_2$ tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. […] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
** 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume IV, page 209:Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stones.
** 1992 October 3, Edwina Currie, Diary:Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit.
* (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
    Synonym: pit
    a peach stone
* (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
** 2016 September 26, James Hamblin, “A Health Benefit of Roller Coasters”, in The Atlantic‎:The pain of passing a larger stone is often compared to child birth.
    Synonym: calculus
    Hyponyms: kidney stone, nephrolith, gallstone, cholelith, sialolith, urolith
* (board games) 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.
    stone:
* (curling) 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.
** 1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume II, London: […] J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver […], published 1717, →OCLC, page 434:Amid that scene, if ſome relenting eye Glance on the ſtone where our cold reliques lie.
** 2013 November 25, Zayn Malik, “Story of My Life”, in Midnight Memories, Columbia Records; Syco Music:It seems to me that when I die / These words will be written on my stone […]
* (obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.
** c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 309, column 1:She's dead as earth: Lend me a Looking-glaſſe; / If that her breath will miſt or ſtaine the ſtone, / Why then ſhe liues.
* (obsolete) A testicle.
** c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 56, column 1:[…] and yet I warrant it had vpon it brow, a bumpe as big as a young Cockrels ſtone?
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 23:1:Hee that is wounded in the ſtones, or hath his priuie member cut off, ſhall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord.
** 1750, W[illiam] Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion […] , London: James Hodges; B. Collins, →OCLC, page 157:To make Capons […] ſome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done.
* (printing, historical) 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.
    Synonym: imposing stone
** 1965, George Murray, The Madhouse on Madison Street, page 38:The Chief called the makeup editor to the stone, pointed to the story which had caught his eye, and suggested a fairly simple remake.

#### Usage notes

* All countable senses use the regular plural stones except the British unit of mass, which uses the invariant plural stone.

#### Synonyms

* (substance): rock
* (small piece of stone): pebble
* (unit of mass): petra
* (of fruit): pip, pit
* (hard stone-like deposit): calculus
* (curling piece): rock

#### Descendants

* Sranan Tongo: ston
* → Esperanto: ŝtono

#### Translations

Abkhaz: ахацə (axacə)
Acehnese: batee
Afar: xaa
Aghwan: 𐔻𐔴 (źe)
Aguaruna: kaya
Ainu: スマ (suma)
Akaha: ikputu
Akan: ɛboɔ, ɔboɔ, ɔbo, bo
Akkadian: 𒉌𒌓 (abnu)
Aklanon: bato
Albanian: gur (sq) m
Ama: tomoki
Amis: fokeloh
Apinayé: kẽn
Arabic: حَجَر (ar) m (ḥajar)
Egyptian Arabic: حجر m (ḥagar)
Gulf Arabic: صخر (ṣaḵar)
South Levantine Arabic: حجر m (ḥájar)
Armenian: քար (hy) (kʻar)
Aromanian: cheatrã, chiatrã
Assamese: পাথৰ (pathor), শিল (xil)
Asturian: piedra (ast) f
Atayal: btunux
Aukan: siton
Avar: гамачӏ (gamačʼ), кьуру (kkˡʼuru)
Avestan: 𐬀𐬯𐬀𐬥 (asan), 𐬀𐬯𐬆𐬥𐬔𐬀 (asənga)
Azerbaijani: daş (az)
Baekje: 珍惡 (durak)
Bakhtiari: برد (bard)
Baluchi: سنگ (sang, sing)
Bashkir: таш (taş)
Basque: harri
Belarusian: ка́мень (be) m (kámjenʹ)
Bengali: পাথর (bn) (pathor)
Bezhta: кьало (kˡʼalo), шед (šed)
Bhojpuri: 𑂣𑂞𑂹𑂟𑂪 (patthal), 𑂣𑂰𑂟𑂩 (pāthar)
Brahui: خَل (xal)
Breton: maen (br) m, mein (br) pl
Brunei Malay: batu
Bulgarian: ка́мък (bg) m (kámǎk)
Bunun: batu
Burmese: ကျောက် (my) (kyauk)
Buryat: шулуун (šuluun)
Catalan: pedra (ca) f, roca (ca) f
Catawba: iti, inti
Cebuano: bato
Chambri: kẽn
Chamicuro: chena
Chechen: тӏулг (tʼulg), тарх (tarx)
Cherokee: ᏅᏳ (chr) (nvyu)
Chichewa: mwala
Chickasaw: tali'
Chinese:
Dungan: шыту (šɨtu)
Mandarin: 石 (zh) (shí), 石頭 / 石头 (zh) (shítou)
Chuvash: чул (čul)
Corsican: petra (co) f
Czech: kámen (cs) m
Dagbani: kuɣli
Dalmatian: pitra f
Danish: sten (da) c
Dargwa: къаркъа (ɢarɢa)
Dolgan: таас
Drung: lung
Dupaningan Agta: pugedu
Dutch: steen (nl) m
Dzongkha: རྡོ (rdo)
Egyptian: (jnr)
Eshtehardi: سینگ (sing)
Esperanto: ŝtono (eo)
Estonian: kivi (et)
Even: дёл (ʒol)
Evenki: дёло (ʒolo)
Extremaduran: paira f
Faroese: steinur (fo) m
Fiji Hindi: patthar (hif)
Finnish: kivi (fi)
French: pierre (fr) f, roche (fr) f
Friulian: piere f
Galician: pedra (gl) f
Ge'ez: እብን (ʾəbn)
Georgian: ქვა (ka) (kva)
German: Stein (de) m
Alemannic German: Stain
Gorontalo: botu (gor)
Gothic: 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 m (stains)
Greek: λίθος (el) m (líthos)
Ancient: λίθος m (líthos), πέτρα f (pétra), λᾶας m (lâas) (Epic)
Greenlandic: ujarak
Guaraní: ita
Haryanvi: भाठा (bhāṭhā)
Hawaiian: pōhaku
Hebrew: אֶבֶן (he) f (éven)
Higaonon: bato
Hiligaynon: bato
Hindi: पत्थर (hi) m (patthar), शिला (hi) (śilā), रोड़ा (hi) (roṛā), हजर (hi) m (hajar), संग (hi) m (saṅg), शिल (hi) f (śil), सिल (hi) f (sil)
Hinukh: гамачӏ (gamac’), лъад (λad)
Hiri Motu: nadi
Hittite: 𒉺𒀸𒅆𒆷𒀸 (passilas)
Hungarian: kő (hu)
Hunsrik: Steen m, xtayn
Hunzib: гамачӏ (gamačʼ), кьа̇лу (ƛ̄ʼɑlu)
Icelandic: steinn (is) m
Ido: petro (io)
Ilocano: bato
Indonesian: batu (id)
Interlingua: petra
Iranun: watu
Irish: cloch (ga) f
Istriot: pera f
Italian: pietra (it) f, roccia (it) f
Japanese: 石 (ja) (ishi)
Javanese: watu (jv), séla
Jeju: 돌 (dol)
Jurchen: wehe
Kaingang: pó
Kalmyk: чолун (çolun)
Kanakanabu: vatu
Kapampangan: batú
Kaqchikel: ab’äj
Kari'na: tupo
Kashmiri: کٔنؠ (kạn')
Kashubian: kam
Kato: se
Kavalan: bettu
Kayapó: kẽn
Kazakh: тас (kk) (tas)
Khinalug: мыда (mɨda), къайа (qːaja), кӏачӏын (ḳač̣ɨn)
Khmer: ថ្ម (km) (tmɑɑ)
Komi-Permyak: из (iz)
Korean: 돌 (ko) (dol)
Krahô: kẽn
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بهرد (bhird), بەرد (ckb) (berd)
Northern Kurdish: kevir (ku), ber (ku), berd (ku), kuç (ku)
Ladakhi: རྡོ་བ (rdo ba)
Lak: чару (čaru), ххяли (x:aˤli)
Lao: ຫີນ (lo) (hīn)
Latgalian: akmiņs
Latin: lapis (la) m, petra f
Latvian: akmens (lv) m
Lezgi: къван (q̄van)
Limburgish: stein (li)
Lithuanian: akmuo (lt) m
Livonian: kiv
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: steen (nds) m
German Low German: Steen (nds) m
Luhya: libale
Luxembourgish: Steen (lb) m
Macedonian: камен (mk) m (kamen)
Magahi: 𑂣𑂞𑂹𑂟𑂪 (patthal)
Maithili: पाथर (pāthar), पाहन (pāhan)
Malagasy: vato (mg)
Malay: batu (ms)
Malayalam: കല്ല് (ml) (kallŭ)
Manchu: ᠸᡝᡥᡝ (wehe)
Manx: clagh
Maori: whatu
Mapudungun: kura
Maranao: wato, bato
Marathi: दगड m (dagaḍ)
Middle English: ston
Middle Persian: sng (sang)
Minangkabau: batu (min)
Miyako: 石 (isu)
Mohawk: onén:ia
Mojave: 'avii
Mongolian: чулуу (mn) (čuluu)
Mori Bawah: watu
Motu: nadi
Mwani: mwala, riwe
Nahuatl: tetl (nah)
Nanai: дёло (ʒolo)
Navajo: tsé
Negidal: ӡolo
Nekgini: si
Nepali: ढुङ्गा (ḍhuṅgā)
Norman: pièrre f (Jersey)
North Frisian: stian m (Föhr-Amrum)
Northern Mansi: а̄хвтас (āhvtas)
Northern Sami: geađgi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: stein (no) m, sten (no) m
Nynorsk: stein (nn) m
Occitan: pèira (oc) f, ròca (oc) f
Odia: ପଥର (or) (pathara)
Ojibwe: asin
Okinawan: 石 (ishi)
Old Church Slavonic: камꙑ m (kamy)
Old English: stān m
Old High German: stein
Old Japanese: 石 (isi)
Old Javanese: watu
Old Norse: steinn m
Old Persian: [script needed] (aθaⁿga-), [script needed] (asan-)
Old Tupi: itá
Old Turkic: 𐱃𐱁 (t¹š)
Oroch: дёло
Orok: ӡоло (ʒolo)
Oromo: dhagaa
Oroqen: dʒɔlɔ
Ossetian: дур (dur)
Ottoman Turkish: طاش (taş), جندل (cendel)
Paiwan: qaciljai
Palauan: bad
Panará: kjẽn
Pará Gavião: kẽn
Pannonian Rusyn: камень m (kamenʹ)
Parthian: 𐫀𐫘𐫗𐫃 (ʾsng)
Persian: سنگ (fa) (sang), برد (fa) (bard)
Phoenician: 𐤀𐤁𐤍 (ʾbn)
Piedmontese: pera f
Pirahã: xaxái
Pitjantjatjara: apu, puḻi
Polish: kamień (pl) m
Portuguese: pedra (pt) f, rocha (pt) f
Purepecha: tsakapu
Puyuma: barasa
Pykobjê: quẽn
Quechua: rumi
Rabha: ৰংকা
Raga: vatu
Rhine Franconian: Schdää
Rohingya: fattór
Romanian: piatră (ro) f
Romansch: crap m
Rukai: lrenege
Russian: ка́мень (ru) m (kámenʹ)
Saaroa: vatu'u
Saho: dhaa
Saisiyat: bato'
Sakizaya: ba'tu
Sanskrit: शिला (sa) f (śilā), पाषी (sa) f (pāṣī)
Santali: ᱫᱷᱤᱨᱤ (dhiri)
Sardinian: pedra
Logudorese: preda f
Scots: stane
Scottish Gaelic: clach f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ка̏ме̄н m
Roman: kȁmēn (sh) m
Seychellois Creole: pyer
Sherpa: རྡོ (rdo)
Sicilian: petra (scn)
Sidamo: kina
Sinhalese: ගල් (si) (gal)
Slovak: kameň m
Slovene: kamen (sl) m
Solon: дёло
Somali: dhagax
Spanish: piedra (es) f, roca (es) f
Sranan Tongo: ston
Sumerian: 𒎎 (na₄)
Suyá: khẽnẽ
Swabian: stoe, Schdõẽ
Swahili: jiwe (sw)
Swedish: sten (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠙꠣꠕ꠆ꠕꠞ (fat́tór), ꠢꠤꠟ (hil)
Tagalog: bato (tl)
Tajik: санг (tg) (sang)
Takia: pat
Talysh: sığ
Tamil: கல் (ta) (kal)
Tapayuna: khẽnẽ
Tarifit: aẓru m
Tat: səng
Tausug: batu
Telugu: రాయి (te) (rāyi)
Ternate: mare
Tetum: fatuk
Thai: หิน (th) (hǐn), ศิลา (th) (sì-laa)
Thao: fatu
Tibetan: རྡོ (rdo)
Tocharian B: kärweñe
Tsez: гъӏул (ɣˤul), лъад (ɬad), гуз (guz)
Tsou: fatu
Tumbuka: liwe
Tupinambá: itá
Turkish: taş (tr)
Tuvan: даш (daş)
Udi: жӏеъ (ž:e̱)
Udihe: ӡоло
Udmurt: из (iz)
Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎁𐎐 (ảbn)
Ukrainian: ка́мінь (uk) m (káminʹ)
Ulch: ӡolo
Urdu: پتھر m (patthar), شلا f (śilā)
Uyghur: تاش (ug) (tash)
Uzbek: tosh (uz)
Venetan: piera f, pièra (vec) f, piéra, pria, prèa, rocia f
Vietnamese: đá (vi)
Volapük: ston (vo)
Walloon: pire (wa) f, rotche (wa) f
Welsh: carreg (cy) f
West Frisian: stien (fy) m
West Makian: mai
Wolof: xeer wi
Xavante: ẽtẽ, ẽnẽ
Xerénte: ktẽ
Xokleng: kózy
Yaeyama: 石 (isï)
Yakut: таас (taas)
Yámana: aiya
Yami: vato, veysen
Yiddish: שטיין m (shteyn)
Yonaguni: 石 (ichi)
Yoruba: òkúta
Yucatec Maya: tuunich, tuunichoob pl
Zealandic: steên
Zhuang: rin
Zulu: itshe class 5 :
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### Verb

stone (third-person singular simple present stones, present participle stoning, simple past and past participle stoned)
* (transitive) To pelt with stones; especially, to kill by pelting with stones.
    stoned to death
    She got stoned to death after they found her.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 7:55–60:55 But hee being full of the holy Ghost, looked vp stedfastly into heauen, and saw the glory of God, and Iesus standing on the right hand of God, 56 And said, Behold, I see the heauens opened, and the Sonne of man standing on the right hand of God. 57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their eares, and ran vpon him with one accord, 58 And cast him out of the citie, and stoned him: and the witnesses layd downe their clothes at a yong mans feete, whose name was Saul. 59 And they stoned Steuen, calling vpon God, and saying, Lord Iesus receiue my spirit. 60 And he kneeled downe, and cried with a loud voice, Lord lay not this sinne to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleepe.
** 1980 February 9, Chris Guilfoy, anonymous quotee, “Town Meeting Talks About The Issue of Violence”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 28, page 1:Our house was being stoned by a group of adolescent boys. We called the police seven times and they wouldn't come.
* (transitive) To wall or wall up with stones.
** 1974, Mathias Peter Harpin, Prophets in the wilderness: a history of Coventry, Rhode Island:[…] and since it was a rule of the French troops not to be a burden on the people along their route it could be that the advance guard dug and stoned the well for the troop's own special use.
* (transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
    Synonyms: destone, pit
* (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
* (transitive, slang) Especially of cannabis or narcotics: To intoxicate. (Usually in passive)
* (intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
** 2003, Roger, Joy, Vera and Amanda Loh, Facts about Singapore: Differences between Ohio and Singapore:I was stoning the whole of today.
** 2011 November 2, Shermaine Ong, (Please provide the book title or journal name):Resume writing class lesson 2, stoning.
** 2015 April 8, Becky Osawa, Trekking with Becky: Stoning at the Marina Barrage, Singapore:The Marina Barrage is a reservoir, but everyone goes there because the spacious greenery at the top is the perfect place for stoning, which is Singlish for hanging out and chilling.
* (transitive) To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.
    Before they did the setup on the machining center, they stoned the table to knock down any nicked burrs.

#### Synonyms

* (pelt with stones): lapidate
* (do nothing, just relaxing): chill, chillax, chill out, hang out, rilek
* (do nothing, stare into space): daydream, veg out

#### Translations
### Adjective

stone (not comparable)
* Constructed of stone.
    Synonym: (archaic) stonen
    stone walls
* Having the appearance of stone.
    stone pot
* Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
* (African-American Vernacular) Used as an intensifier.
    She is one stone fox.
** 1994, Andrew H. Vachss, Born Bad: Stories:Yeah, he's a stone fuck–up. But he's stand–up, too, don't forget that.
** 2000 September 9, Lisa Beth, “Rabbi Shmuli Boteach Refuted”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated‎ (Usenet):Of course the Torah rejects (*some*) sexual acts between members of the same sex. And of course it doesn't condemn gays and lesbians. Someone who doesn't realize that is a stone bigot to begin with.
** 2001, Andrew H. Vachss, Pain Management:“And I got the best metal man in the business going for me, too.” “This job's going to be a stone motherfucker,” Flacco said
** 2009, John Lutz, Night Victims, page 307:He might be a stone killer who simply doesn't care if his victim's alive or dead at the time of disfigurement.
* (LGBTQ, slang) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.
    Antonym: pillow princess
    stone butch
    stone femme
** 1993, Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues, Los Angeles: Alyson Books, published 2003, →ISBN, page 9:Lately I've read these stories by women who are so angry with stone lovers, even mocking their passion when they finally give way to trust, to being touched.
** c. 2000, Sonya, “Femme Identity: Stone-Butch/Femme Dynamic, FTM/Femme Dynamic”, in Transensual Femme‎, archived from the original on 2000-05-20:My physical preference tends more to very masculine-bodied non-transitioning stone TG butches.

#### Translations
### Adverb

stone (not comparable)
* As a stone (used with following adjective).
    My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.
* (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).
    I went stone crazy after she left.
    I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind.

#### Translations
### Derived terms

* Abrasax stone
* Adamic stone
* adder stone
* alley stone
* altar-stone
* altar stone
* alum stone
* Ancaster stone
* appeal to the stone
* a rolling stone gathers no moss
* Atlas stone
* baking stone
* Balin stone
* Bargate stone
* Bath stone
* beat one's head against a stone wall
* benben stone
* bezoar stone
* Big Stone County
* birthstone
* blackstone
* Black Stone
* Blarney Stone
* blood from a stone
* bluestone
* Bologna stone
* Bolognian stone
* bondstone
* border stone
* bowing stone
* brimstone
* brownstone
* Caen stone
* capstone
* carved in stone
* cast the first stone
* cauterizing stone
* china stone
* cinnamon stone
* Coade stone
* cobblestone
* Colwall Stone
* coping stone
* corner-stone
* cornerstone
* Cotswold stone
* cross-stone
* crystal stone
* Cullen stone
* cultured stone
* curbstone
* curling stone
* dimensional stone
* dimension stone
* dog-stone
* dolostone
* donkey stone
* dripping water hollows a stone
* dripstone
* dry stone
* drystone, dry-stone
* dry-stone dyke
* dry stone wall
* eaglestone
* Einang stone
* fairy stone
* fieldstone
* firestone
* five stones
* flagstone
* foil stone
* footstone
* foundation stone
* Four Shire Stone
* free-stone
* freestone
* gallstone
* gall stone
* gemstone
* get blood from a stone
* get blood out of a stone
* gibber stone
* gizzard stone
* Goa stone
* go stone
* grainstone
* grape-stone
* gravestone
* greenstone
* grinding stone
* grindle-stone
* grindstone
* guard stone
* hailstone
* hairstone
* hair stone
* hard as stone
* Headington stone
* headstone
* hearthstone
* heart of stone
* holystone
* honeycomb stone
* Horsham stone
* humming stone
* hunger stone
* infernal stone
* inkstone
* Jew's stone
* kerb stone
* kerb-stone
* kerbstone
* keystone
* kidney stone
* kill two birds with one stone
* Labrador stone
* leave no stone unturned
* let he who is without sin cast the first stone
* let him that is without sin cast the first stone
* let him who is without sin cast the first stone
* lime-stone
* limestone
* lithographic stone
* living stone
* lizard-stone
* lodestone
* Lydian stone
* made of stone
* mani stone
* markstone
* mark with a white stone
* marriage stone
* milestone
* mill-stone
* millstone
* moa stone
* moonstone
* mort stone
* not leave a stone unturned
* nunuz stone
* nuptial stone
* off stone
* oilstone
* oxygen stone
* palm stone
* paper scissors stone
* paving stone
* people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
* perpend stone
* perpent stone
* Petoskey stone
* philosopher's stone
* philosophers' stone
* Philosopher's Stone, Philosophers' Stone
* Phrygian stone
* pipestone
* pizza stone
* plaster-stone
* Portland stone
* precious stone
* pudding stone
* pumice stone
* pumie stone
* pumy stone
* Purbeck stone
* putting stone
* quernstone
* rai stone
* rattle stone
* reading stone
* recumbent stone circle
* redstone
* rhinestone
* ringstone
* rolling stone
* Rosetta Stone
* rotten stone
* rubbing stone
* runestone
* Samian stone
* sandstone
* Saracen's stone
* Saracen stone
* Sarsden stone
* satin stone
* scissors paper stone
* screw-stone
* scrying stone
* seal stone
* seeing stone
* set in stone
* sharpening stone
* shew stone
* show-stone
* show stone
* sink like a stone
* sling-stone
* slingstone
* sling stone
* slocking stone
* Smithfield stone
* soapstone
* sorcerer's stone
* sounding stone
* sounding-stone
* specular stone
* spleen stone
* staddle stone
* standing stone
* standing stones
* steddle stone
* stepping-stone
* stepping stone
* sticks and stones
* sticks and stones may break my bones
* stone age
* stone-age
* Stone Age
* stone baby
* stone bass
* stone-blind
* stone boat
* stone boiling
* stone bow
* stone bramble
* stone brash
* stonebreaker
* Stonebridge
* stone broke
* stone-broke
* stone bubble
* stone butch
* stone canal
* stonecast
* stone cell
* stone centipede
* stonechat
* stone circle
* stone coal
* stone-cold sober
* stone-cold, stone cold
* stone colic
* stone coral
* Stone County
* stone crab
* stone cream
* stone cress
* stonecrop
* Stone Cross
* stone curlew
* stonecutter
* stoned
* stone-dead, stone dead
* stone-deaf, stone deaf
* stone editor
* stone-faced
* stone falcon
* stone femme
* stone-fence
* stonefish
* stonefly
* stone frigate
* stone fruit
* stone-ginger
* stoneground, stone-ground
* stone hammer
* stone hands
* stone-hard
* stone-hearted
* stonehearted
* stone-heartedly
* stone-heartedness
* Stonehenge
* stone-horse
* stone jug
* stone-knapper
* stone knapper
* stoneless
* stone lily
* stone-lily
* stone loach
* stone man syndrome
* stone marten
* stonemason
* stone massage
* stone me
* Stone Mills
* stone mint
* stone money
* stone mulching
* stonen
* stone naked
* Stone of Destiny
* stone of the philosophers
* stone oil
* stone paper
* stone parsley
* stone-paste
* stone paste
* stone pine
* stone pit
* stone plover
* stoner
* stone-rag
* stoneroller
* stone shoot
* stone skiffing
* stone skimming
* stone skipping
* stone-snipe
* stone soup
* stone's throw
* stone-still
* stone sub
* stone subeditor
* stone tape theory
* stone the crows
* stone-throwing
* stone wall
* stonewall
* stone-wall
* stonewaller
* stoneware
* stonewashed
* stonework
* stonewort
* stone xylophone
* stoneyard
* stony
* stumbling stone
* stumbling-stone
* summer-stone
* swimming stone
* Swiss stone pine
* television stone
* through-stone
* through stone
* throw stones
* thumb stone
* thunderstone
* tombstone
* tongue stone
* tonsil stone
* tool stone
* totem stone
* touchstone
* trone stone
* Turkey stone
* turn to stone
* two birds/one stone
* two birds with one stone
* two birds—one stone
* Tyndall stone
* upping stone
* Venus's hair stone
* waterstone
* Watton-at-Stone
* whetstone
* whinstone
* whiskey stone
* whitestone
* wine stone
* witches' stone
* witch stone
* work-stone
* worry stone
* written in stone
* yellowstone

### See also

* Appendix:Colors

### Anagrams

* 'onest, ETNOs, Eston, SONET, notes, onest, onset, set on, seton, steno, steno-, tones

## Chinese
### Etymology

From English stoned.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stʊŋ⁵⁵/

### Adjective

stone
* (Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism) stoned; high on drugs, especially cannabis
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## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ston/

### Adjective

stone (plural stones)
* stoned (high on drugs)

## Middle English
### Noun

stone
* Alternative form of ston