stone

English Online Dictionary. What means stone‎? What does stone mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /stəʊn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /stoʊn/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /stɐʉn/
• Rhymes: -əʊn

Etymology 1

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”), Saterland Frisian Steen (“stone”), West Frisian stien (“stone”), Dutch steen (“stone”), German Low German Steen (“stone”), German Stein (“stone”), Danish and Swedish sten, Norwegian stein (“stone”), Icelandic steinn (“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.

Noun

stone (countable and uncountable, plural stones or (UK, as unit of weight) stone)

2. (uncountable, geology) A hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material.

   Synonym: rock
4. (countable, geology) A piece of such material: a rock or a pebble.
6. A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
7. (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.
9. (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.

   Synonyms: pit, seed pit; (botany) pyrena, pyrene

   Hyponyms: cherry pit, peach pit

   Near-synonym: pip

11. (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.

    Synonym: calculus

    Hyponyms: kidney stone, nephrolith, gallstone, cholelith, sialolith, urolith

13. (board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.
14. A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

15. (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
16. A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
17. (obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.
18. (obsolete) A testicle.
19. (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

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

Adjective

stone (not comparable)

1. Constructed of stone.

   Synonym: (archaic) stonen

   stone walls

2. Having the appearance of stone.

   stone pot

3. Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
4. (African-American Vernacular) Used as an intensifier.
5. (LGBTQ, slang) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.

   Antonym: pillow princess

   stone butch

   stone femme

Translations

Adverb

stone (not comparable)

1. As a stone (used with following adjective).

2. (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English stonen, stanen, from Old English *stānian (“to stone”), from Proto-West Germanic *stainōn, from Proto-Germanic *stainōną (“to stone”).

Cognate with Scots stane (“to stone”), German Low German stenen (“to stone”), Danish stene (“to stone”), Swedish stena (“to stone”), Faroese steina (“to stone”). Compare also Saterland Frisian stenigje (“to stone”), West Frisian stiennigje (“to stone”), Dutch stenigen (“to stone”), German steinigen (“to stone”).

Verb

stone (third-person singular simple present stones, present participle stoning, simple past and past participle stoned)

2. (transitive) To pelt with stones; especially, to kill by pelting with stones.

   stoned to death
4. (transitive) To wall or wall up with stones.

   Synonym: stean
6. (transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).

   Synonyms: destone, pit

8. (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
10. (transitive, slang) Especially of cannabis or narcotics: To intoxicate. (Usually in passive)
12. (intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
14. (transitive) To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.

Synonyms

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

Translations

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^(key): /stʊŋ⁵⁵/

Adjective

stone

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism) stoned; high on drugs, especially cannabis

   • 「嘩其實你哋係醉咗定Stone咗？」 [Cantonese, trad.]
     「哗其实你哋系醉咗定Stone咗？」 [Cantonese, simp.]

     “waa³ kei⁴ sat⁶ nei⁵ dei⁶ hai⁶ zeoi³ zo² ding⁶ stone zo²?” [Jyutping]

     “Wow, were you guys drunk or stoned?”

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ston/

Adjective

stone (plural stones)

1. stoned (high on drugs)

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

stone

1. alternative form of ston

Etymology 2

Verb

stone

1. alternative form of stonen (“to stun”)