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Cornerstone   /kˈɔrnərstˌoʊn/   Listen
Cornerstone

noun
1.
The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained.  Synonyms: base, basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork.
2.
A stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies.
3.
A stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls.





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"Cornerstone" Quotes from Famous Books



... The old Marsteller house, acquired by the public school system in 1882, when the present school building was erected, has by many been confused with the old academy building. The Alexandria academy was a one-story brick structure. Its cornerstone was laid September 7, 1785, by the Alexandria Lodge of Freemasons, Robert Adam, Esquire, Worshipful Master of the Lodge. Mrs. Powell, in her History of Old Alexandria, states that after the stone was laid "a gratuity was distributed among the workmen." The ...
— Seaport in Virginia - George Washington's Alexandria • Gay Montague Moore
... prophet's widow, partly completed and occupied Nauvoo House after the departure of the Mormons for Utah, and some years later he took out the cornerstone and opened it, but found the manuscript so ruined by moisture that only a little ...
— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn


Words linked to "Cornerstone" :   fundament, building, meat and potatoes, explanation, supposal, base, supposition, edifice, stone, assumption


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