Stone

[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] a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"
[n] a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me"
[n] United States architect (1902-1978)
[n] United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946)
[n] United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
[n] United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
[n] United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
[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"
[n] (British) 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] 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"
[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"
[adj] of any of various dull tannish-gray colors
[adj] of or relating to or made of stone; "a stone house"
[v] remove the pits from, as of certain fruit such as peaches
[v] kill by throwing stones at; "Adulterers should be stoned according to the Koran"

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Synonyms

chromatic, Edward Durell Stone, endocarp, gem, gemstone, Harlan Fiske Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone, lapidate, Lucy Stone, Oliver Stone, pit, pit, rock, rock