stone
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /stəʊn/
ipa: /stoʊn/
ipa: /stɐʉn/
rhymes: -əʊn
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”), North Frisian stian, Stiin, stiinj (“stone”), Saterland Frisian Steen (“stone”), West Frisian stien (“stone”), Dutch steen (“stone”), German Stein (“stone”), German Low German Steen, Stein (“stone”), Luxembourgish Steen (“stone”), Vilamovian śtan (“stone”), Yiddish שטיין (shteyn, “stone”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish sten (“stone”), Faroese steinur (“stone”), Gutnish stain (“stone”), Icelandic steinn (“stone”), Norwegian Nynorsk stein (“stone”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (stains, “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.
Senses: examples: text: My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.
glosses: As a stone (used with following adjective).
examples: text: I went stone crazy after she left.
text: I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind.
glosses: Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).
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
Black Stone
blackstone
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 stone
cast the first stone
cauterizing stone
china stone
cinnamon stone
Coade stone
cobblestone
Colwall Stone
coping stone
cornerstone
corner-stone
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
for hellery
foundation stone
Four Shire Stone
freestone
free-stone
gall stone
gallstone
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
green-stone
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
jade-stone
Jew's stone
kerbstone
kerb-stone
kerb stone
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
millstone
mill-stone
moa stone
Mocha stone
moonstone
mort stone
not leave a stone unturned
nunuz stone
nuptial stone
off stone
ohko 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
philosophers' stone
philosopher's 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
quandong stone
quernstone
rai stone
rattle stone
reading stone
recumbent stone circle
redstone
rhinestone
ringstone
rolling stone
Rosetta Stone
rotten stone
rubbing stone
runestone
runner stone
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
sling stone
slingstone
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 lion
stone loach
stone man syndrome
stone marten
stonemason
stone massage
stone me
Stone Mills
stone mint
stone money
stone mulching
stonen
stone naked
stone nut
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
stone-wall
stonewall
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
turtle stone
turtle-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