cobblestone

See also: cobble-stone

English

Alternative forms

• cobble-stone

Etymology

From Middle English cobylstone, cobyllstone, kobilstane, kobill-stane, equivalent to cobble +‎ stone. Compare Old Norse köppusteinn (“boulder”), Danish kampesten (“boulder”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑbl̩ˌstoʊn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒbl̩ˌstəʊn/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: cob‧ble‧stone

Noun

cobblestone (countable and uncountable, plural cobblestones)

1. (countable) A rounded stone from a river bed, fit for use as ballast in ships and for paving roads.

   Synonym: cobble

   • 1964, “The Sound of Silence”, in Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., performed by Simon & Garfunkel:

     In restless dreams I walked alone / Narrow streets of cobblestone

2. (uncountable) Cobblestones viewed as a building or paving material.

   The road was paved in cobblestone.

Derived terms

• cobblestoned
• cobblestone ice
• cobblestoning

Translations

a rounded stone

• Albanian: lëmaqe
• Aragonese: tantonico m, bolo m, ruello (an) m
• Basque: galtzada-harri
• Bulgarian: объл камък (obǎl kamǎk)
• Catalan: còdol (ca), llamborda (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鵝卵石 / 鹅卵石 (zh) (éluǎnshí)

• Czech: kočičí hlava f
• Danish: brosten (da) c
• Dutch: keisteen (nl); (for paving) kassei (nl); kasseisteen
• Estonian: munakivi
• Finnish: mukulakivi (fi)
• French: pavé (fr)
• Georgian: რიყის ქვა (riq̇is kva)
• German: Katzenkopf m, Katzenkopfpflasterstein m, Pflasterstein (de) m
• Greek: κροκάλα (el) f (krokála), σκύρο (el) f (skýro)
• Hungarian: macskakő (hu)
• Irish: doirneog f
• Italian: pavé (it) m, ciottolo (it) m, ciottolato (it) m
• Japanese: 丸石 (ja) (まるいし, maruishi), 玉石 (ja) (たまいし, tamaishi)
• Latvian: bruģakmens m
• Lithuanian: grindinio akmuo m
• Macedonian: калдрма (mk) f (kaldrma)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brostein m

• Occitan: calada (oc), pasiment (oc), pavat
• Polish: brukowiec (pl) m, otoczak (pl) m, bruk (pl) m
• Portuguese: pedregulho m, pedras arredondadas f pl; (for paving) paralelepípedo m, calçamento (pt) m
• Quechua: khallki
• Romanian: piatră de râu f (literally “river stone”)
• Russian: булы́жник (ru) m (bulýžnik)
• Serbo-Croatian: kaldrma (sh) f
• Spanish: adoquín (es)
• Swedish: kullersten (sv)
• Ukrainian: брукі́вка (uk) f (brukívka)
• Yiddish: ברוק m (bruk)

References

• “cobblestone” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

Further reading

• cobblestone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia