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tsunami stone

tsunami stone noun: a stone which serves to warn of the dangers of tsunamis in Japan.

tsunami stone: a stone which serves to warn of the dangers of tsunamis in Japan
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Noun

tsunami stone (plural tsunami stones)

  1. A stone which serves to warn of the dangers of tsunamis in Japan.
    • I mention the tsunami stones, many of which had been ignored in the burst of economic activity in Japan that followed World War II. Commerce grows along dangerous places, on rivers and coastlines. Is it possible, I ask, that there's a value to forgetting?2011 September 5, Brendan Greeley, “The God Clause”, in Bloomberg Businessweek, number 4244, Bloomberg, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 67
    • I have seen the Aneyoshi ‘tsunami stone’ that [Richard] Hamblyn refers to and these are indeed powerful reminders of the devastation caused by earlier events2015 December, James Goff, “Richard Hamblyn, Tsunami: Nature and Culture, Reaktion Books Ltd: London, 2014; 184 pp.: 9781780233475, £14.95 (pbk)”, in Progress in Physical Geography, volume 39, number...

Forms of tsunami stone

pluraltsunami stones

Origin of tsunami stone

Calque of Japanese 津波石 (tsunami ishi).

Questions about tsunami stone

What does tsunami stone mean?
Tsunami stone means a stone which serves to warn of the dangers of tsunamis in Japan.
What part of speech is tsunami stone?
Tsunami stone is a noun.
What is the plural of tsunami stone?
The plural of tsunami stone is tsunami stones.

Words near tsunami stone in the dictionary

  1. Tsun-i
  2. tsuna
  3. tsunameter
  4. tsunameters
  5. tsunami
  6. tsunami stone
  7. tsunami stones
  8. tsunami wall
  9. tsunami walls
  10. tsunamic
  11. tsunamigenesis

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