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freestone

UK/ˈfɹiːstəʊn//ˈfɹiːstoʊn/

freestone noun: sedimentary rock: a type of stone that is composed of small particles and easily shaped, most commonly sandstone or limestone.

Noun

freestone (countable and uncountable, plural freestones)

  1. Sedimentary rock: a type of stone that is composed of small particles and easily shaped, most commonly sandstone or limestone.
    • Mr Allworthy […] died immensely rich and built an hospital […] but had he done nothing more I should have left him to have recorded his own merit on some fair freestone over the door of that hospital.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
    • It might, under all the circumstances above stated, have been a question with other builders, whether to import one shipload of costly jaspers, or twenty of chalk flints; and whether to build a small church faced with porphyry and paved with agate, or to raise a vast cathedral in freestone.1853, John Ruskin, “IV, St. Mark's”, in The Stones of Venice, volume II (The Sea-Stories), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § XXVII, page 77
  2. (countable) A stone fruit having a stone (pit) that is relatively free of the flesh.

Proper noun capitalized: Freestone

Freestone (countable and uncountable, plural Freestones)

  1. A surname from Old English.
  2. An unincorporated community in Sonoma County, California, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in Freestone County, Texas, United States.

Forms of freestone

Noun
pluralfreestones
Proper noun
pluralFreestones

Origin of freestone

From free + stone.

Originated as a habitual name from Friston, Friston, or Frieston.

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Phrases with freestone

Words that rhyme with freestone

Questions about freestone

What does freestone mean?
Freestone means sedimentary rock: a type of stone that is composed of small particles and easily shaped, most commonly sandstone or limestone.
What part of speech is freestone?
Freestone can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce freestone?
Freestone is pronounced /ˈfɹiːstəʊn/ (UK).
What is the plural of freestone?
The plural of freestone is freestones.

Words near freestone in the dictionary

  1. freest
  2. freest running
  3. freestanding
  4. freester
  5. freesters
  6. freestone
  7. Freestone County
  8. Freestone State
  9. freestones
  10. freestore
  11. freestream

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