stone

• (s) of any of various dull tannish or grey colors

Nouns

• (n) a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
  • he threw a rock at me
  rock,
• (n) 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
• (n) 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
  rock,
• (n) 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
  gemstone, gem,
• (n) 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
• (n) 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
  endocarp, pit,
• (n) United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946) Harlan Fisk Stone, Harlan F. Stone, Harlan Stone,
• (n) United States filmmaker (born in 1946) Oliver Stone,
• (n) United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893) Lucy Stone,
• (n) United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989) I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone,
• (n) United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946) Harlan Fiske Stone,
• (n) United States architect (1902-1978) Edward Durell Stone,
• (n) a lack of feeling or expression or movement
  • he must have a heart of stone
  • her face was as hard as stone

Verbs

• (v) kill by throwing stones at
  • People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock
  lapidate,
• (v) remove the pits from
  • pit plums and cherries
  pit,

Synonyms

Words of close approximity