curbstone
curbstone is the US spelling of kerbstone.
Meaning of kerbstone
Noun
kerbstone (plural kerbstones)
- A paving stone that forms part of a kerb.
- You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days. Well, sir, in three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party.1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act I, page 115
Forms of curbstone
| plural | curbstones |
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Origin of curbstone
From curb + stone.
Words formed from curbstone
Questions about curbstone
- What is curbstone the US spelling of?
- Curbstone is the US spelling of kerbstone.
Words near curbstone in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: curbstone (page history and authors); kerbstone (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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