Definitions for Scone

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Scone scone

Spelling: [skohn, skon]

IPA: /skoʊn, skɒn/

Scone is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in Scone (cenos).

Definitions for Scone

noun

1. a small, light, biscuitlike quick bread made of oatmeal, wheat flour, barley meal, or the like.
2. biscuit1 (def 1).
3. a village in central Scotland: site of coronation of Scottish kings until 1651.
4. Stone of, a stone, formerly at Scone, Scotland, upon which Scottish kings sat at coronation, now placed beneath the coronation chair in Westminster Abbey.

Origin of Scone

1505-15; shortened Dutch schoonbrot fine bread, white bread. See sheen, bread

Examples for Scone

What about the scone, or the biscotti, or the lowly mandelbrot?

"Splendidly," Jim said, taking his cup, and retiring from the tea-table with a scone.

He dropped on a knee and drew a scone and some fish from the ashes.

Charles the Second was crowned by the Scotch at scone, in 1651.

Edward then harried the land and carried off the Stone of Destiny from scone.

Maggie had baked a scone and handed it to him; then, after he had bitten it, he handed it back.

He attended at the crowning of Charles at scone, January 1, 1651.

But often Christie found the scone superfluous, and just ate the cream by the spoonful instead.

(here we get hold of historic fact) placed it at scone in the ninth century.

At this time Ormsby, the justiciary, was holding court at scone.