Meaning and Origin
What does the name Stone mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
User Submitted Meanings
- A submission from Oklahoma, U.S. says the name Stone means "rock" and is of English origin.
- A user from Arizona, U.S. says the name Stone is of English origin and means "Hard solid nonmetallic mineral matter of which rock is made, especially as a building material".
- Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones. "Dumb as a stone." [Chaucer.]"They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for mortar." [Gen. xi. 3.]
- A precious stone; a gem."Many a rich stone."Chaucer."Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels."Shak.
- Something made of stone. Specifically: -
- The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
(Obs)
"Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives." [Shak.] - A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
"Should some relenting eye Glance on the where our cold relics lie." [Pope.]
- The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
- [Med] A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
- One of the testes; a testicle.
- [Bot] The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
- A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.(Eng)
- Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone ."I have not yet forgot myself to stone." [Pope.]
- [Print] A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone.
Note: ☞ In popular language, very large masses of stone are called rocks; small masses are called stones; and the finer kinds, gravel, or sand, or grains of sand. Stone is much and widely used in the construction of buildings of all kinds, for walls, fences, piers, abutments, arches, monuments, sculpture, and the like.
Note: ☞ The stone of butchers' meat or fish is reckoned at 8 lbs.; of cheese, 16 lbs.; of hemp, 32 lbs.; of glass, 5 lbs.
Note: ☞ Stone is used adjectively or in composition with other words to denote made of stone containing a stone or stones employed on stone, or, more generally, of or pertaining to stone or stones; as, stone fruit, or stone-fruit; stone-hammer, or stone hammer; stone falcon, or stone-falcon. Compounded with some adjectives it denotes a degree of the quality expressed by the adjective equal to that possessed by a stone; as, stone-dead, stone-blind, stone-cold, stone-still, etc.
Etymology: OE. ston stan, AS. stān; akin to OS. & OFries. stēn, D. steen, G. stein, Icel. steinn, Sw. sten, Dan. steen, Goth. stains, Russ. stiena a wall, Gr. �, �, a pebble. √167. Cf. Steen
- To pelt, beat, or kill with stones."And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." [Acts vii. 59.]
- To make like stone; to harden."O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart." [Shak.]
- To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
- To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
- To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
Etymology: From Stone (n.): cf. AS. st�nan, Goth. stainjan
- 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")
- A lack of feeling or expression or movement ("he must have a heart of stone" and "her face was as hard as stone")
- A lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
- United States architect (1902-1978)
- United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946)
- United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
- United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
- United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
- United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)
- 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")
- 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")
- Material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust ("stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries")
- A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry ("she had jewels made of all the rarest stones")
- Remove the pits from
- Kill by throwing stones at ("People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock")
- Of any of various dull tannish or grey colors
- An English occupational and habitational surname, for someone who lived near a stone worked with stone, from Old English stan.
- A locale in England.
- A market town in Stafford borough, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9034).
- A village in Buckinghamshire.
- A village in Gloucestershire.
- A village in Kent.
- A village in Worcestershire.
- A locale in the United States.
- An unincorporated community in California.
- An unincorporated community in Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Kentucky; named for coal businessman Galen L. Stone.
- An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.