Word.ws English Dictionary

sounding stone

sounding stone noun: a Chinese musical instrument, usually L-shaped, made of stone or jade, hung and struck as a xylophone.

Noun

sounding stone (plural sounding stones)

  1. A Chinese musical instrument, usually L-shaped, made of stone or jade, hung and struck as a xylophone.

Forms of sounding stone

pluralsounding stones
alternative formsounding-stone

Questions about sounding stone

What does sounding stone mean?
Sounding stone means a Chinese musical instrument, usually L-shaped, made of stone or jade, hung and struck as a xylophone.
What part of speech is sounding stone?
Sounding stone is a noun.
What is the plural of sounding stone?
The plural of sounding stone is sounding stones.

Words near sounding stone in the dictionary

  1. sounding out
  2. sounding rocket
  3. sounding rockets
  4. sounding rod
  5. sounding rods
  6. sounding stone
  7. sounding stones
  8. sounding the alarm
  9. sounding-board
  10. sounding-boards
  11. sounding-stone

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sounding stone (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sounding stone.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sounding_stone. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.