stone vs cornerstone

cornerstone vs stone

stone and cornerstone both are nouns.

stone is an adjective but cornerstone is not an adjective.

stone is a verb but cornerstone is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
stone	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
cornerstone	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cornerstone is a hyponym of stone; that is, cornerstone is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than stone:

stone: building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose
cornerstone: a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls

Other hyponyms of stone include ashlar, capstone, copestone, coping stone, stretcher, foundation stone, gravestone, headstone, tombstone, grindstone, hearthstone, millstone, monolith, paving stone, impost, springer, stela, stele, whetstone.

stone (noun)	cornerstone (noun)
building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose	a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls
a lack of feeling or expression or movement	a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter	the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds
material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry

stone (adjective)	cornerstone (adjective)
of any of various dull tannish or grey colors

stone (verb)	cornerstone (verb)
remove the pits from
kill by throwing stones at

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