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Stone
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stone
English
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Etymology
From en stone. en Steen Stein.
Pronunciation
en /stəʊ̯n/ RP
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-stone.wav RP
en /stoʊ̯n/ GA
en En-us-stone.ogg US
en /stɐʉ̯n/ NZ,AU
en /ston/ Scotland
en /stoːn/ Wales,non-toe-tow
en əʊn 1
Proper noun
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en countable en English occupational and habitational Old English, for someone who lived near a stone worked with stone, from en ang stan.
Vanessa Friedman Don Lemon, Nikki Haley and the Lessons of a Hoodie 2023-02-20 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/style/don-lemon-cnn-nikki-haley.html Tucker Carlson (also a jacket and tie guy) picked up on the hoo-ha on his Fox News show, calling the hoodie-jacket combination a “cry for help” and inviting Roger Stone, the disgraced former political operative and author of his own “Best and Worst dressed List,” to comment. https://web.archive.org/web/20250828155619/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/style/don-lemon-cnn-nikki-haley.html 28 August 2025
en Who Was Matthew Stone? Father Accused as Being Erie, Pennsylvania, Shooting Suspect Rounak Bagchi w:Times Now https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/who-was-matthew-stone-erie-pa-shooting-suspect-angelina-stone-article-156317724 2026-10-11 A pregnant woman who was days away from giving birth and her two young children were among nine people killed in a shooting at a home in Erie, Pennsylvania, according to local reports. Angelina Stone, 24, was expecting her third child, whom she had named Kyrie. Her due date was Wednesday, five days after the shooting on Friday, 9 October.
en countable en male.
A placename:
en locale cc/England:
en village par/Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell co/Buckinghamshire previously in dist/Aylesbury Vale OS grid ref SP7811.
en village par/Ham and Stone dist/Stroud co/Gloucestershire OS grid ref ST6895.
en village/and/cpar in bor/Dartford co/Kent OS grid ref TQ5774. Parish map (Kent)
en hamlet par/Maltby metbor/Rotherham co/South Yorkshire OS grid ref SK5589.
en market town/and/cpar with a town council in bor/Stafford co/Staffordshire OS grid ref SJ9034. Parish map (Staffordshire)
en village/and/cpar in dist/Wyre Forest co/Worcestershire OS grid ref SO8575. Parish map (Worcestershire)
en locale c/US.
en unincorporated community s/California.
en unincorporated community s/Indiana.
en ucomm and coal town in co/Pike County s/Kentucky ; named for coal businessman Galen L. Stone.
en ucomm town:pref/Rutland co/Dane County s/Wisconsin.
en Stone County.
Derived terms
en Lucy Stoner Ham and Stone Stone County Stone-Weierstrass theorem Stone space Stone-Čech compactification Čech-Stone compactification Stone-cum-Ebony Stone Harbor Stone in Oxney Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell Stonie
Translations
surname meaning "stone"
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 石 Shí
Czech: cs Skála
German: de Stein
Low German: nds Steen
Polish: pl Kamień
Yiddish: yi שטיין
See also
en Featherstone Poundstone
References
Anagrams
en enost 'onest ETNOs Eston SONET notes onest onset set on seton steno steno- tones
en surnames from common nouns