"graystone" meaning in English

See graystone in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: graystones [plural]
Etymology: From gray + stone. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|gray|stone}} gray + stone Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} graystone (countable and uncountable, plural graystones)
  1. (uncountable) A type of gray volcanic rock, typically containing feldspar and iron. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-graystone-en-noun-d9m-diN6
  2. (uncountable, attributive) Any type of gray stone, such as limestone, used in building. Tags: attributive, uncountable Categories (topical): Rocks
    Sense id: en-graystone-en-noun-FOfLkfpC Disambiguation of Rocks: 38 59 3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 70 3 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 20 73 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 10 86 4
  3. (countable, by extension) A building of this kind. Tags: broadly, countable
    Sense id: en-graystone-en-noun-WKOlpGu7
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: greystone [UK] Related terms: brownstone

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gray",
        "3": "stone"
      },
      "expansion": "gray + stone",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From gray + stone.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "graystones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "graystone (countable and uncountable, plural graystones)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "brownstone"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of gray volcanic rock, typically containing feldspar and iron."
      ],
      "id": "en-graystone-en-noun-d9m-diN6",
      "links": [
        [
          "volcanic",
          "volcanic"
        ],
        [
          "feldspar",
          "feldspar"
        ],
        [
          "iron",
          "iron"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) A type of gray volcanic rock, typically containing feldspar and iron."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "27 70 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 73 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 86 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "38 59 3",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rocks",
          "orig": "en:Rocks",
          "parents": [
            "Geology",
            "Natural materials",
            "Earth sciences",
            "Materials",
            "Nature",
            "Sciences",
            "Manufacturing",
            "All topics",
            "Human activity",
            "Fundamental",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:",
          "text": "I certainly was not prepared for the cosy nestling valleys that snuggled against the shoulders of the hills; a land where the graystone cottages and farmsteads still prevailed, but where they had taken on something of the softness of their kind in Gloucester and the Cotswolds, and seemed almost like growths of the soil; […].",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 4, “Letters: Mr. Obama’s Neighborhood”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "Founded almost 50 years ago, it's an imposing graystone structure (formerly a park district office).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any type of gray stone, such as limestone, used in building."
      ],
      "id": "en-graystone-en-noun-FOfLkfpC",
      "links": [
        [
          "limestone",
          "limestone"
        ],
        [
          "building",
          "building"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable, attributive) Any type of gray stone, such as limestone, used in building."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017, Terry Moor, Reinventing an Urban Vernacular:",
          "text": "Because graystones were more expensive to build than frame buildings and had a more substantial look and feel, they were the choice of the middle and upper classes.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A building of this kind."
      ],
      "id": "en-graystone-en-noun-WKOlpGu7",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable, by extension) A building of this kind."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "word": "greystone"
    }
  ],
  "word": "graystone"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Rocks"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gray",
        "3": "stone"
      },
      "expansion": "gray + stone",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From gray + stone.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "graystones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "graystone (countable and uncountable, plural graystones)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "brownstone"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of gray volcanic rock, typically containing feldspar and iron."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "volcanic",
          "volcanic"
        ],
        [
          "feldspar",
          "feldspar"
        ],
        [
          "iron",
          "iron"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) A type of gray volcanic rock, typically containing feldspar and iron."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:",
          "text": "I certainly was not prepared for the cosy nestling valleys that snuggled against the shoulders of the hills; a land where the graystone cottages and farmsteads still prevailed, but where they had taken on something of the softness of their kind in Gloucester and the Cotswolds, and seemed almost like growths of the soil; […].",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 4, “Letters: Mr. Obama’s Neighborhood”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "Founded almost 50 years ago, it's an imposing graystone structure (formerly a park district office).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any type of gray stone, such as limestone, used in building."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "limestone",
          "limestone"
        ],
        [
          "building",
          "building"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable, attributive) Any type of gray stone, such as limestone, used in building."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017, Terry Moor, Reinventing an Urban Vernacular:",
          "text": "Because graystones were more expensive to build than frame buildings and had a more substantial look and feel, they were the choice of the middle and upper classes.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A building of this kind."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable, by extension) A building of this kind."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "word": "greystone"
    }
  ],
  "word": "graystone"
}

Download raw JSONL data for graystone meaning in English (2.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-10-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (eaa6b66 and a709d4b). 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.