Definitions for moonstone

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moonstone moon·stone

Spelling: [moon-stohn]

IPA: /ˈmunˌstoʊn/

Moonstone is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in moonstone (emnnooost).

Definitions for moonstone

noun

1. Also called precious moonstone. a semitransparent or translucent, opalescent, pearly-blue variety of adularia, used as a gem.
2. any of several adularescent feldspars, as certain varieties of albite, labradorite, or oligoclase, used as gems.
3. (not used technically) any milky or girasol stone used as a gem.

Origin of moonstone

First recorded in 1625-35; moon + stone

Examples for moonstone

Her hair, moonstone women admitted, would have been very pretty "on anybody else."

The opal and the moonstone are the gems most often figuring in these tales.

Howard Archie was "respected" rather than popular in moonstone.

You may discover so much by reading the "moonstone," that monument of ingenuity and absurdity.

She was chiefly known in moonstone for her forbearance with her incorrigible husband.

There's not one person in moonstone that really lives the way the New Testament says.

"I am going to read 'The moonstone' out in the garden the whole afternoon," she replied.

The wickedness of Denver and of Chicago, and even of moonstone, occupied her thoughts too much.

She thought her brother the most important man in moonstone.

Nobody in moonstone ever found what Wunsch's first name was.