Sunstone

Definition: Sunstone

Sunstone

Noun

1. A translucent quartz spangled with bits of mica or other minerals.

Date "sunstone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references)

Domain	Definition
Mining	A. An aventurine feldspar, generally a brilliant, translucent variety of oligoclase that emits a reddish or golden billowy reflection from minute scales or flakes of hematite spangled throughout and arrayed parallel to planes of repeated twinning. CF:goldstone; moonstone. Syn:heliolite b. A red-to-yellow variety of bytownite caused by minute inclusions ofcopper and found in basalt from Oregon. See also:aventurine. (references)
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Synonym: Sunstone

Synonym: aventurine (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Jewelry	Diamond, brilliant, rock; beryl, emerald; chalcedony, agate, heliotrope; girasol, girasole; onyx, plasma; sard, sardonyx; garnet, lapis lazuli, opal, peridot, tourmaline, chrysolite; sapphire, ruby, synthetic ruby; spinel, spinelle; balais; oriental, oriental topaz; turquois, turquoise; zircon, cubic zirconia; jacinth, hyacinth, carbuncle, amethyst; alexandrite, cat's eye, bloodstone, hematite, jasper, moonstone, sunstone.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Sunstone

English words defined with "sunstone": Aventurine feldspar. (references)

Domain	Title
References	Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)
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Language		Translations for "sunstone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		avanturin. (various references)

Pig Latin		unstonesay

Russian		авантюрин. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sunstone": sunstones. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sunstone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gunstone, Sansoni, Sundstein. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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	Direct Anagrams: neustons.
	Words within the letters "e-n-n-o-s-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: neuston, nonuses, sonnets, tonuses.
	-2 letters: nonets, nonuse, nouses, onsets, onuses, setons, setous, snouts, sonnet, stenos, stones, sunset, tenons, tonnes, touses, unsent, unsets.
	-3 letters: neons, nests, nones, nonet, noses, notes, nouns, onset, ousts, seton, snots, snout, sones, souse, steno, stone, stuns, suets, sunns, tenon, tones, tonne, tonus, touse, tunes, unset.
	-4 letters: eons, neon, ness, nest.
	Words containing the letters "e-n-n-o-s-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: nonguests, sunstones.
	+2 letters: rotundness, sunbonnets, turnstones, unsoundest.
	+3 letters: consequents, nonstudents, nonsubjects, reunionists, sententious, shotgunners, spontaneous, subventions, tenuousness, uncouthness.
	+4 letters: consecutions, constituents, countersigns, countersinks, discontinues, functionless, interfusions, langoustines, mensurations, mutinousness, neutrinoless, noncustomers, nourishments, outgoingness, rotundnesses, southernness, stubbornness, supernations, sustentation, unctuousness, untowardness, unwontedness, unworthiness.
	+5 letters: anticonsumers, bounteousness, bountifulness, conjugateness, conscientious, consentaneous, consultancies, counterstains, encrustations, fortunateness, incorruptness, instantaneous, insurrections, intravenouses, menstruations, momentousness, monstrousness, mountainsides, opportuneness, outspokenness, plenteousness, sententiously, spontaneously, sternutations, stonecuttings, strenuousness, subcomponents, subcontinents, superventions, sustentations, tenaciousness, tenuousnesses, thunderstones, uncouthnesses, unsensational, venturousness, voluntariness.
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Country	Name
USA	Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
sunstone	65
sunstone hotel	40
oregon sunstone	13
sunstone winery	12
sunstone magazine	7
home sunstone	5
sunstone hotel investor	5
inc sunstone	5
sunstone jewelry	4
aztec sunstone	4
sunstone yoga	4
sunstone vineyard	4
finish pool sunstone	3
dinotopia odyssey sunstone	3
mormon sunstone	2
pool sunstone	2
properties sunstone	2
navigation sunstone viking	2
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Sunstone

Definition: Sunstone

Sunstone

Noun

Specialty Definition: Sunstone

Synonym: Sunstone

Synonyms within Context: Sunstone

Jewelry

Crosswords: Sunstone

Commercial Usage: Sunstone

References

Usage in Company Names: Sunstone

Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sunstone

Modern Translation: Sunstone

Hungarian

Pig Latin

Russian

Derivations & Misspellings: Sunstone

Derivations

Misspellings

Anagrams: Sunstone

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