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cobble-stone

cobble-stone is the alternative form of cobblestone.

Meaning of cobblestone

Noun

cobblestone (countable and uncountable, plural cobblestones)

  1. (countable) A rounded stone from a river bed, fit for use as ballast in ships and for paving roads.
    • In restless dreams I walked alone / Narrow streets of cobblestone1964, “The Sound of Silence”, in Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., performed by Simon & Garfunkel
    Synonyms:
    cobble
  2. (uncountable) Cobblestones viewed as a building or paving material.
    • The road was paved in cobblestone.

Forms of cobble-stone

pluralcobble-stones

Questions about cobble-stone

What is cobble-stone the alternative form of?
Cobble-stone is the alternative form of cobblestone.

Words near cobble-stone in the dictionary

  1. Cobbinshaw
  2. Cobbitty
  3. cobble
  4. cobble together
  5. cobble up
  6. cobble-stone
  7. cobble-stones
  8. Cobblebank
  9. cobbled
  10. cobbled together
  11. cobbled up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cobble-stone (page history and authors); cobblestone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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