Stone

From stone. Doublet of Steen and Stein.

Stone (countable and uncountable, plural Stones)

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.
   • 2023 February 20, Vanessa Friedman, “Don Lemon, Nikki Haley and the Lessons of a Hoodie”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Tucker Carlson (also a jacket and tie guy) picked up on the hoo-ha on his Fox News show, calling the hoodie-jacket combination a “cry for help” and inviting Roger Stone, the disgraced former political operative and author of his own “Best and Worst dressed List,” to comment.

2. (countable) A male given name.
3. A placename:
   1. A locale in England:
      1. A village in Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell parish, Buckinghamshire, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP7811).
      2. A village in Ham and Stone parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST6895).
      3. A village and civil parish in Dartford borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ5774). ^[1]
      4. A hamlet in Maltby parish, Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SK5589).
      5. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Stafford borough, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9034). ^[2]
      6. A village and civil parish in Wyre Forest district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO8575). ^[3]
   2. A locale in the United States.
      1. An unincorporated community in California.
      2. An unincorporated community in Indiana.
      3. An unincorporated community in Kentucky; named for coal businessman Galen L. Stone.
      4. An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.
   3. Ellipsis of Stone County.

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