Stone

See also: stone

English

Etymology

From stone. Doublet of Steen and Stein.

Proper noun

Stone (countable and uncountable, plural Stones)

1. (countable) An English occupational and habitational surname from Old English, for someone who lived near a stone worked with stone, from Old English stan.
2. (countable) A male given name
3. A placename:
   1. A locale in England:
      1. A village in Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell parish, Buckinghamshire, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP7811).
      2. A village in Ham and Stone parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST6895).
      3. A village and civil parish in Dartford borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ5774).
      4. A hamlet in Maltby parish, Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SK5589).
      5. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Stafford borough, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9034).
      6. A village and civil parish in Wyre Forest district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO8575).
   2. A locale in the United States.
      1. An unincorporated community in California.
      2. An unincorporated community in Indiana.
      3. An unincorporated community in Kentucky; named for coal businessman Galen L. Stone.
      4. An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.
   3. Ellipsis of Stone County.

Derived terms

• Čech-Stone compactification
• Ham and Stone
• Stone-Čech compactification
• Stone County
• Stone-cum-Ebony
• Stone in Oxney
• Stone space
• Stone-Weierstrass theorem
• Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell
• Stonie

 

Translations

surname meaning "stone"

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 石 (zh) (Shí)

• Czech: Skála
• German: Stein (de)
• Low German: Steen (nds)
• Polish: Kamień
• Yiddish: שטיין (shteyn)

See also

• Featherstone
• Poundstone

 

Anagrams

• 'onest, ETNOs, Eston, SONET, notes, onest, onset, set on, seton, steno, steno-, tones