how to pronounce stone

/stəʊn/

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stone is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of stone in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… argument in stone once and for all and …”

meaning of stone

Stone is a type of rock.

stone frequency in english - A2 level of CEFR

the word stone occurs in english on average 82.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics stone can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that stone can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;