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Word entry · 8 letters

capstone

Best crossword clue

"Crowning piece"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈkæpˌstoʊn/Part of speech nounSorted acenopstStarts with CEnds with E2 cluesCommon crossword word
1C2A3P4S5T6O7N8E

Definitions

  1. A finishing stone or final crowning part.

Word origin

From Middle English capston; equivalent to cap + stone.

Used in a sentence

  • “You see, I’ve never had a girl friend,” I added, by way of topping the obelisk of silliness with the capstone of fatuity.
  • Capstoning a decade's worth of linked short stories, The Quiet War (2008) was a vivid and tense novel about a solar system sliding into conflict.
  • “Capstoned” units are now able to train and plan in peacetime with the command with which they will fight in wartime.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Crowning piece8 letters
02Final piece8 letters

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