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Word entry · 8 letters

keystone

Best crossword clue

"Central support"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈkiː.stəʊn/Part of speech nounSorted eeknostyStarts with KEnds with E2 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the central building block at the top of an arch or vault

Word origin

From key + stone.

Used in a sentence

  • “The tunnel, which is 1,000 yd. long, had been closed to passenger traffic since November 17, 1949, after some of the keystones had worked loose.”
  • “Tension between empirical and theoretical knowledge is keystone to sociological and to organizational theories, as early as in Marx's and Weber's frameworks.”

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01“Central support”8 letters
02“Arch center”8 letters

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