freestone
/ˈfɹiːstoʊn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.21 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Sedimentary rock: a type of stone that is composed of small particles and easily shaped, most commonly sandstone or limestone.
Countable; Uncountable
name
An unincorporated community in Sonoma County, California, United States.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "The exterior walls are of freestone, and have a smooth, neat appearance."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɹiːstoʊn/
- British English: /ˈfɹiːstəʊn/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.