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Copestone

Definition: Copestone

Copestone

Noun

1. A final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination.

2. A stone that forms the top of wall or building.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "copestone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1882. (references)


Synonyms: Copestone

Synonyms: capstone (n), coping stone (n), finishing touch (n), stretcher (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Copestone

Language Translations for "copestone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Turkish

  

son rötuş (coping stone), saçak taşı (coping stone). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

завершення (achievement, close, closure, come off, completion, conclusion, consummation, coping stone, ending, finality, finishing, fulfilment, perfecting, wind up), парапетний камінь (coping stone). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Copestone

Derivations

Words beginning with "copestone": copestones. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Copestone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cookestone, cupstone, Occlestone, oestrone. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Copestone

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-n-o-o-p-s-t"

-1 letter: ecotones, potences.

-2 letters: cenotes, ecotone, openest, pectens, pentose, posteen, poteens, potence.

-3 letters: cenote, centos, contes, contos, cooees, coopts, copens, netops, nostoc, pecten, peones, ponces, pontes, poteen, spence, topees.

-4 letters: cense, cento, cents, cepes, cetes, cones, conte, conto, cooee, coons, coops, coopt, coots, copen, copes, copse, coset, cotes, escot, estop, neeps, netop, noose, notes, onces.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-n-o-o-p-s-t"
 

+1 letter: copestones.

 

+2 letters: counterpose, ctenophores, kinetoscope, zeptosecond.

 

+3 letters: coleopterans, corespondent, counterpoise, counterposed, counterposes, cyproterones, kinetoscopes, omnipotences, postelection, stereophonic, stereopticon, technophobes, zeptoseconds.

 

+4 letters: contemporizes, corespondents, correspondent, counterpoised, counterpoises, counterpowers, interoceptors, postrecession, progestogenic, proteinaceous, reconceptions, retinoscopies, retrospection, scleroprotein, stereopticons, totipotencies.

 

+5 letters: contemporaries, correspondents, counterprotest, decompensation, expectorations, incorporeities, nucleoproteins, overcompensate, phosphorescent, photoelectrons, pneumothoraces, postadolescent, preconceptions, preconventions, pronouncements, reincorporates, retrospections, scleroproteins.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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