Overview of noun stone

The noun stone has 13 senses

• rock, stone -- (a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me")


• stone -- (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")


• rock, stone -- (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")


• gem, gemstone, stone -- (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")


• stone -- (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")


• stone, pit, endocarp -- (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")


• Stone, Harlan Stone, Harlan F. Stone, Harlan Fisk Stone -- (United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946))


• Stone, Oliver Stone -- (United States filmmaker (born in 1946))


• Stone, Lucy Stone -- (United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893))


• Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone -- (United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989))


• Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone -- (United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946))


• Stone, Edward Durell Stone -- (United States architect (1902-1978))


• stone -- (a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone")

Overview of verb stone

The verb stone has 2 senses

• stone, lapidate -- (kill by throwing stones at; "People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock")


• pit, stone -- (remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries")

Overview of adj stone

The adj stone has 1 sense

• stone -- (of any of various dull tannish or grey colors)