English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old English stān.
Noun
stone (countable and uncountable; plural stones except as shown below)
- (uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks and boulders.
- A small piece of stone.
- (UK) (plural stone) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc.
- Quotations
- 1882: Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 209.
- (medical) A hard, stone-like deposit.
- kidney stone
- A piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon.
Synonyms
Translations
substance
- Albanian: gur m
- Basque: harri
- Breton: maen m, mein plural
- Bulgarian: камък m
- Dutch: steen m
- Old English: stan
- Esperanto: ŝtono
- Estonian: kivi
- Finnish: kivi
- French: pierre f
- Frisian: stien
- German: Stein m
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- Greek: λίθος (lithos)
- Guarani: ita
- Interlingua: petra
- cloch f2
- Italian: pietra f
- Japanese: 石 (いし , ishi)
- Latin: lapis
- Polish: kamień m
- Portuguese: pedra f
- Romanian: piatră f
- Spanish: piedra f
- Swedish: sten c
- Tupinambá: itá
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small piece of stone
- Arabic: حَجَرٌ
- Breton: kailhenn f kailhoù plural
- Bulgarian: камък m
- Dutch: steen m
- Estonian: kivi
- Finnish: kivi
- French: pierre f
- German: Stein m
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- Irish: cloch f2
- Italian: pietra f
- Latin: lapis
- Slovene: kamen m
- Spanish: piedra f
- Swedish: sten c
- Tupinambá: itá
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unit of mass
medical: hard, stone-like deposit
- Breton: maen-gravell m, mein-gravell plural
- Bulgarian: камък m
- Estonian: kivi
- Finnish: kivi
- French: calcul m
- German: Stein m
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- Italian: calcolo m
- Slovene: kamen m
- Spanish: piedra f
- Swedish: sten c
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piece of hard material used in board games
- Finnish: kivi
- German: Stein m
- Swedish: pjäs c
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The translations below need to be checked by native speakers and inserted into the appropriate table(s) above. Note: the numbering is not necessarily correct.
Transitive verb
to stone
- To kill by pelting with stones.
- (slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics.
Translations
kill by pelting with stones
- Breton: labezañ , meinata
- Dutch: stenigen
- Finnish: kivittää
- German: steinigen
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- Interlingua: lapidar
- Portuguese: apedrejar , lapidar
- Spanish: lapidar
- Swedish: stena
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to intoxicate, especially with narcotics
Adjective
stone
- Constructed of stone.
- stone walls
- Having the appearance of stone.
- stone pot
Translations
constructed of stone
- Breton: maen
- Bulgarian: каменен m
- Dutch: stenen
- Finnish: kivinen
- German: steinern
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- Interlingua: de petra, petrose
- Portuguese: de pedra , pétreo
- Spanish: de piedra , pétreo m, pétrea f
- Swedish: sten- , av sten
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having the appearance of stone
Adverb
stone (no comparative or superlative)
- Absolutely, completely (used only in certain set phrases)
- stone dead
- stone deaf
Translations
absolutely, completely
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