Definitions for capstones

capstones cap·stone

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

Capstones is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 658 anagrams from letters in capstones (acenopsst).

Definitions for capstones

noun

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

Origin of capstones

1350-1400; Middle English. See cap1, stone

Examples for capstones

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Word Value for capstones
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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