Definitions for scones

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scones scone

Spelling: [skohn, skon]

IPA: /skoʊn, skɒn/

Scones is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in scones (cenoss).

Definitions for scones

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 scones

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

Examples for scones

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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