Stepping Stone

Definition: Stepping Stone

Stepping Stone

Noun

1. A stone in a marsh or shallow water that can be stepped on in crossing.

2. Any means of advancement; "the job was just a stepping stone on his way to fame and riches".

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

Crosswords: Stepping Stone

The Stepping Stone (1916)

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Books

• Ginger Brown: The Nobody Boy (First Stepping Stone Books) (reference)

• The Wrong Crowd (A Stepping Stone Book, Grades 1-3) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Lateral Thinking - Stepping Stone (reference)

• How-To Stained Glass Stepping Stone Video (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Another stepping stone. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Health

Once confirmed, a discovery becomes the stepping stone to other discoveries. (references)

Business

GPRS is an enhancement of GSM technology and represents a major stepping stone to third-generation mobile technology. (references)

Owing to its proximity to Hong Kong, Guangdong Province acts as a stepping stone for many foreign investors entering the Chinese market. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Finnish

astinlauta (carriage-step, running-board). (various references)

French

tremplin, pierre de gué. (various references)

German

sprungbrett (launching pad, spring board, springboard, steppingstone). (various references)

Greek 

μέσο προόδου, λίθοσ χρησιμεύων ωσ πάτημα. (various references)

Hungarian

lépcsõfok (stair), hágcsó (round). (various references)

Italian

pietra per guadare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

踏み石 , 踏み台 (footstool), 靴脱ぎ石 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くつぬぎいし, ふみいし, ふみ� い (footstool). (various references)

Pig Latin

eppingstay onestay

Romanian

trambulinã (spring-board), piatrã în pârâu pe care se calcã. (various references)

Russian 

ступенька на пути (steppingstone). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pomoć u karijeri (steppingstone), oslonac da bi se stiglo do nekog cilja (steppingstone), kamen na koji se staje (steppingstone). (various references)

Swedish

språngbräda (springboard, stepping-stone), medel (agent, expedient, funds, instrumentation, means, money, stepping-stone, wherewithal). (various references)

Turkish

vasıta (agency, facility, instrumentality, medium, resource, vehicle), atlama taşı, üzerine basılarak karşıya geçilen taş. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: steppingstone.

-2 letters: pepsinogens.

-3 letters: pepsinogen, pipestones.

-4 letters: egestions, estopping, ineptness, intensest, nepotists, noisettes, penitents, penpoints, pensiones, pettiness, pipestone, sentients, spongiest, teosintes, tinstones.

-5 letters: egestion, egotists, epigones, epitopes, essonite, genoises, goneness, nepotist, nettings, noisette, openings, openness, osteites, penitent, penpoint, pensione, pensions, pentoses, pepsines, peptones, pestiest, pettings, pipettes, poetises, posteens, postings, postteen, potteens, sentient, settings, signpost, snippets, soppiest.

+1 letter: steppingstones.