Definitions for keystone

keystone key·stone

Spelling: [kee-stohn]
IPA: /ˈkiˌstoʊn/

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

You can make 213 anagrams from letters in keystone (eeknosty).

Definitions for keystone

noun

  1. the wedge-shaped piece at the summit of an arch, regarded as holding the other pieces in place.
  2. something on which associated things depend:
  3. Also called keystone sack. Baseball Slang. second base (def 1).

Origin of keystone

First recorded in 1630-40; key1 + stone

Examples for keystone

From the looks of it, mistletoe is a keystone species and plays a crucial role in that forest ecosystem.

In fact, not a few of us think that the Strathcona is the keystone of the Mission.

Therefore, we should—you guessed it—develop the Canadian tar sands and build the keystone pipeline.

Congress is nearing a vote on the keystone XL pipeline, and lawmakers made their cases for—and against—it Sunday.

They have made keystone XL the poster child of their climate-change efforts.

From the pavement to the keystone of its vault is but 132 French feet—about 150 English.

On this is the inscription: “Her loss was that as of a keystone to an arch.”

That is the keystone of American liberty—'malice toward none.'

But if Clinton waded into the natural gas debate, she entirely avoided the keystone one.

The keystone of the arch had been removed, the downfall of the whole must follow.

Word Value for keystone
Scrable

15

Words with friends

15

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