stone – English noun declension

English noun forms of stone

Noun: stone
Singularstone
Pluralstones; stone

Sample Sentences

  • Toad, that vnder cold ſtone, / Dayes and Nights ha’s thirty one: / Sweltred Venom ſleeping got, / Boyle thou firſt i’th’ charmed pot. [c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 143, column 2:]
  • The first day of the weeke, commeth Mary Magdalene earely when it was yet darke, vnto the Sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the Sepulchre. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 20:1:]
  • It is about 2,500 yards in circuit, is built of red stone, and, according to Von Orlich, is now " a bastioned quinquangle ; the ancient walls with semicircular bastions face the two streams ; the land side is quite regular, and consists of two bastions, and a half-bastion with three ravelins," and stands higher than any ground in face of it. [1858, Edward Thornton, A Gazetteer of the Territories Under the Government of the East India Company and of the Native States on the Continent of India, W. H. Allen & Co., page 22:]
  • The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll. [2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:]
  • A railway station which formerly stood a few miles from Sydney has recently been demolished, stone by stone, and has been re-erected as a church in the Australian Capital Territory of Canberra, about 200 miles away. [1960 March 26, “Notes and News: Cemetery Station Re-Erected as a Church”, in Railway Magazine, page 215:]
  • […]Ineſtimable Stones, vnvalewed Iewels[…] [c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], page 180, column 1:]
  • British people measure their weight in stones and pounds. I weigh eight stone five.
  • Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6+¹⁄₂ tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. […] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds. [1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia, page 202:]
  • Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stones. [1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume IV, page 209:]
  • Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit. [1992 October 3, Edwina Currie, Diary:]
  • Near-synonym: pip
  • a peach stone
  • The pain of passing a larger stone is often compared to child birth. [2016 September 26, James Hamblin, “A Health Benefit of Roller Coasters”, in The Atlantic:]
  • Amid that scene, if ſome relenting eye
  • Glance on the ſtone where our cold reliques lie. [1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume II, London: […] J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver […], published 1717, →OCLC, page 434:]
  • It seems to me that when I die / These words will be written on my stone[…] [2013 November 25, Zayn Malik, “Story of My Life”, in Midnight Memories, Columbia Records; Syco Music:]
  • She's dead as earth: Lend me a Looking-glaſſe; / If that her breath will miſt or ſtaine the ſtone, / Why then ſhe liues. [c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 309, column 1:]
  • […]and yet I warrant it had vpon it brow, a bumpe as big as a young Cockrels ſtone? [c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 56, column 1:]
  • Hee that is wounded in the ſtones, or hath his priuie member cut off, ſhall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 23:1:]
  • To make Capons […] ſome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done. [1750, W[illiam] Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion […] , London: James Hodges; B. Collins, →OCLC, page 157:]
  • The Chief called the makeup editor to the stone, pointed to the story which had caught his eye, and suggested a fairly simple remake. [1965, George Murray, The Madhouse on Madison Street, page 38:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
3. Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂-
4. Proto-Indo-European *stoyh₂nos
5. Proto-Germanic *stainaz
6. Proto-West Germanic *stain
7. Old English stān
8. Middle English ston
9. English stone
10. From Middle English ston, stone, stan, from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (“stone”), from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”).
11. Cognates
12. Cognate with Scots stane (“stone”), Yola sthoan (“stone”), North Frisian stean, stian, stiin, stiinj (“stone”), Saterland Frisian Steen (“stone”), West Frisian stien (“stone”), Alemannic German Steei (“rock, stone”), Bavarian Staa (“rock, stone”), Central Franconian Steen, Stään (“stone”), Dutch steen (“stone”), German Stein (“rock, stone”), German Low German Steen, Stein (“stone”), Luxembourgish Steen (“stone”), Vilamovian śtan (“stone”), Yiddish שטיין (shteyn, “stone”), Danish and Swedish sten (“stone”), Elfdalian stien (“stone”), Faroese steinur (“stone”), Gutnish stain (“rock, stone”), Icelandic steinn (“rock, stone”), Norwegian Bokmål stein, sten (“stone”), Norwegian Nynorsk steidn, stein (“stone”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (stains, “stone”). Compare also Ancient Greek στία (stía, “pebble”), στέαρ (stéar, “tallow”), Lithuanian sténgti (“to be able, make an effort; to oppose”), Russian стена́ (stená, “wall”), Albanian shtëng (“hardened or pressed matter”), Sanskrit स्तिया (stiyā, “still or stagnant water”). Doublet of stain, stean, and stein. See: Middle English Nouns 'ston', Dutch Nouns 'steen', German Nouns 'Stein', Faroese Nouns 'steinur', Icelandic Nouns 'steinn', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'stein', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'steidn', Gothic Nouns '𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃', Ancient Greek Nouns 'στία'.

Verbs referencing "stone"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns stein, Russian Nouns стена, German Nouns Stein, Icelandic Nouns steinn, Gothic Nouns 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃.