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stonen

stonen adjective: consisting or made of stone.

Adjective

stonen (comparative more stonen, superlative most stonen)

  1. (archaic) Consisting or made of stone.
    • […] And up these well-worn blocks of stone
      I came when I first ran alone,
      The stonen stairs beclimb'd the mound,
      Ere father put a foot to ground, […]1869, William Barnes, Poems of rural life in common English

Forms of stonen

comparativemore stonen
superlativemost stonen

Origin of stonen

From Middle English stonen, alteration (due to stone) of earlier stenen, from Old English stǣnen (“stony; of stone, hard as stone; stone, made of stone, built of stone”), from Proto-West Germanic *stainīn, from Proto-Germanic *stainīnaz (“made of stone”), equivalent to stone + -en. Cognate with Dutch stenen (“stonen”), German Low German stenen (“stonen”), German steinen (“stonen”).

Questions about stonen

What does stonen mean?
Stonen means consisting or made of stone.
What part of speech is stonen?
Stonen is an adjective.

Words near stonen in the dictionary

  1. stonemason's hammer
  2. stonemasonry
  3. stonemasons
  4. stonemeal
  5. stonemen
  6. stonen
  7. stoneness
  8. stonepaste
  9. stonepastes
  10. stonepecker
  11. stonepeckers

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