Stone's Throw

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Nearness	Within hearing, within earshot; within an ace of; but a step, not far from, at no great distance; on the verge of, on the brink of, on the skirts of; in the environs; Noun: at one's door, at one's feet, at one's elbow, at one's finger's end, at one's side; on the tip of one's tongue; under one's nose; within a stone's throw; Noun: in sight of, in presence of; at close quarters; cheek by jole, cheek by jowl; beside, alongside, side by side, tete-a-tete; in juxtaposition; (touching); yardarm to yardarm, at the heels of; on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon, verging to; in the way.
	Short distance, short step, short cut; earshot, close quarters, stone's throw; bow shot, gun shot, pistol shot; hair's breadth, span.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Commercial Usage: Stone's Throw

Domain	Title
Music	Just a Stone's Throw Away (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Familiar Quotations: Stone's Throw

Speeches: Stone's Throw

Expressions: Stone's Throw

Modern Translation: Stone's Throw

Language		Translations for "stone's throw"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏قريب جدا (within a stone's throw), ‏على مرمى حجر (within a stone's throw). (various references)

Bulgarian		един хвърлей камък (stone's cast). (various references)

Finnish		kivenheitto. (various references)

French		très proche d'ici. (various references)

German		sprung (bound, branch, break, crack, dive, fissure, hop, interstice, jump, leap, plunge, pounce, skip, spring, transfer, vault), katzensprung. (various references)

Hungarian		kőhajításnyi távolság, kőhajítás. (various references)

Pig Latin		one'sstay owthray

Portuguese		arremesso de pedra (a stone's throw). (various references)

Romanian		la o azvârliturã de piatrã (at a stone's throw). (various references)

Russian		очень близко (a stone's throw, within an inch). (various references)

Spanish		tiro de piedra (a stone's throw). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Stone's Throw

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "'-e-h-n-o-o-r-s-s-t-t-w"
	-2 letters: northwests, stoneworts.
	-3 letters: honeworts, northwest, snowshoer, stonewort, whoresons.
	-4 letters: honewort, orthoses, reshoots, sheroots, shooters, shortens, shortest, snowshoe, soothers, soothest, stentors, swooners, swotters, testoons, whoreson.
	-5 letters: enroots, hooters, hornets, horstes, hotness, nestors, noosers, noshers, onshore, reshoot, reshown, reshows, senhors, sheroot, shooter, shorten, shotten, showers, sooners, soonest, soother, soothes, stentor, stoners, swooner, swotter, tensors, testons, testoon.
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Author	Quotation
Cervantes	Within a stone's throw of it.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	A stone's throw from Broadway it was, and how appropriate.
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Definition: Stone's Throw

Expressions using "stone's throw": a stone's throw ♦ at a stone's throw ♦ within a stone's throw ♦ within a stone's throw of. Additional references.
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