Definitions for capstone

capstone cap·stone

Spelling: [kap-stohn]
IPA: /ˈkæpˌstoʊn/

Capstone is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 532 anagrams from letters in capstone (acenopst).

Definitions for capstone

noun

  1. a finishing stone of a structure.
  2. the crowning achievement, point, element, or event.

Origin of capstone

1350-1400; Middle English. See cap1, stone

Examples for capstone

From one end of the capstone we have an admirable bit for a picture.

Honesty is not only the foundation, but the capstone as well, of business success.

It is for them to put the capstone upon the sublime structure.

I think this was a capstone to the major military project of his term.

Once a favorite to replace Clinton at State, he is a contender for Defense Secretary as a capstone to his long legislative career.

On the western side of the capstone is the history of the construction.

But for Carter, this is a capstone to a career spent in the decidedly unsexy corridors of Pentagon power.

To him, the touch of her hand as he pressed it in his was the capstone of the whole adventure.

Cantor said he sees the election of de Blasio as the capstone of a transformational year for the progressive movement.

The capstone on which the statue stands is one of the record-stones of the Temple.

Word Value for capstone
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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