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Stone en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ston/ (Scotland)
  • /stɐʉ̯n/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • /stoːn/ (Wales) without the toe–tow merger
  • /stəʊ̯n/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (US) audio
  • /stoʊ̯n/ (General-American)
  • (Received-Pronunciation) audio

Etymology

From stone. Doublet of Steen and Stein.

Meanings

  1. (countable) An English occupational and habitational surname from Old English, for someone who lived near a stone worked with stone, from Old English stan.
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  2. (countable) A male given name.
  3. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A locale in England: ▸ A village in Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell parish, Buckinghamshire, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP7811).
  4. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A locale in England: ▸ A village in Ham and Stone parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST6895).
  5. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A locale in England: ▸ A village and civil parish in Dartford borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ5774).
  6. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A locale in England: ▸ A hamlet in Maltby parish, Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SK5589).
  7. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A locale in England: ▸ A market town and civil parish with a town council in Stafford borough, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9034).
  8. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A locale in England: ▸ A village and civil parish in Wyre Forest district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO8575).
  9. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A locale in the United States. ▸ An unincorporated community in California.
  10. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A locale in the United States. ▸ An unincorporated community in Indiana.
  11. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A locale in the United States. ▸ An unincorporated community and coal town in Pike County, Kentucky; named for coal businessman Galen L. Stone.
  12. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A locale in the United States. ▸ An unincorporated community in the town of Rutland, Dane County, Wisconsin.
  13. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) A placename: ▸ Ellipsis of Stone County.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
Stones Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

Stonie · Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell · Ham and Stone · Stone-cum-Ebony · Stone in Oxney · Stone-Weierstrass theorem · Stone-Čech compactification · Stone County · Lucy Stoner · Čech-Stone compactification · Stone space

Relateds

Featherstone · Poundstone

Translations (6)

de Stein (surname meaning "stone") · pl Kamień (surname meaning "stone") · cs Skála (surname meaning "stone") · yi שטיין (surname meaning "stone") · cmn 石 (surname meaning "stone") · nds Steen (surname meaning "stone")