Definitions for copestone

copestone cope·stone

Spelling: [kohp-stohn]
IPA: /ˈkoʊpˌstoʊn/

Copestone is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 362 anagrams from letters in copestone (ceenoopst).

Definitions for copestone

noun

  1. the top stone of a building or other structure.
  2. a stone used for or in coping.
  3. the crown or completion; finishing touch.

Origin of copestone

First recorded in 1560-70; cope2 + stone

Examples for copestone

It was reserved to his successor to raise it, as the martyr had predicted it would be raised, even to the copestone.

Then Mrs. Ross did something more wonderful than all this—the very climax and copestone of her unwonted melting of heart.

The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.

The copestone which Absalom put on his plot when all was ripe for execution was of a piece with the whole undertaking.

Abruptly he swung his feet down from the copestone to the floor of the veranda.

The justices and councilors of a supreme court, the copestone of the judiciary, were nominated by the same body.

For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity.

The horrid shrieks of the Chouette served to place the copestone on the fury of the Schoolmaster.

The edifice of German nationality still requires the copestone for the completion of the structure.

Word Value for copestone
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Words with friends

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