See altarstone in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "altarstones",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "altarstone (plural altarstones)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "altar stone"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
81,
91
]
],
"ref": "1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:",
"text": "From the high barbicans of the tower two shafts of light fall on the smokepalled altarstone.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
66,
76
]
],
"ref": "1938, Herman Joseph Heuser, The American Ecclesiastical Review:",
"text": "The indulgence is attached to the structure itself and not to the altarstone.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
4,
14
]
],
"ref": "1994, Elizabeth A. Graham, The Highlands of the Lowlands:",
"text": "The altarstone is situated just south of the stela; the area around it had been disturbed in an apparent looting attempt.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of altar stone"
],
"id": "en-altarstone-en-noun-LiStvKAP",
"links": [
[
"altar stone",
"altar stone#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "altarstone"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "altarstones",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "altarstone (plural altarstones)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "altar stone"
}
],
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
81,
91
]
],
"ref": "1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:",
"text": "From the high barbicans of the tower two shafts of light fall on the smokepalled altarstone.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
66,
76
]
],
"ref": "1938, Herman Joseph Heuser, The American Ecclesiastical Review:",
"text": "The indulgence is attached to the structure itself and not to the altarstone.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
4,
14
]
],
"ref": "1994, Elizabeth A. Graham, The Highlands of the Lowlands:",
"text": "The altarstone is situated just south of the stela; the area around it had been disturbed in an apparent looting attempt.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of altar stone"
],
"links": [
[
"altar stone",
"altar stone#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "altarstone"
}
Download raw JSONL data for altarstone meaning in English (1.3kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (aeaf2a1 and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.