"runestone" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: runestones [plural]
Etymology: From rune + stone. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|rune|stone}} rune + stone Head templates: {{en-noun}} runestone (plural runestones)
  1. (archaeology) An ancient monument consisting of a typically raised stone with a runic inscription. Categories (topical): Archaeology Translations (stone with a runic inscription): pedra rúnica [feminine] (Catalan), runesten [common-gender] (Danish), runensteen [masculine] (Dutch), runŝtono (Esperanto), riimukivi (Finnish), pierre runique [feminine] (French), pedra rúnica [feminine] (Galician), Runenstein [masculine] (German), runpetro (Ido), batu Rune (Indonesian), pietra runica [feminine] (Italian), runų akmuo [masculine] (Lithuanian), runestein [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), runesten [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), runestein [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), kamień runiczny [masculine] (Polish), pedra rúnica [feminine] (Portuguese), руни́ческий ка́мень (runíčeskij kámenʹ) [masculine] (Russian), piedra rúnica (cf. estela rúnica f) [feminine] (Spanish), runsten [common-gender] (Swedish), руні́чний ка́мінь (runíčnyj káminʹ) [masculine] (Ukrainian), raunaston (Volapük)
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  2. A small tile-shaped stone or tablet with a single rune inscribed on it, used for divinatory and esoteric purposes.
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (eaedd02 and 8fbd9e8). 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.