Meanings
plural stone's throws · alternative stonesthrow
- idiomaticA short distance, roughly equivalent to how far a person can throw a stone.
A couple of grown-ups was standing a couple of stone's throws away from us.
2 more examples
1 March 2018, Tusdiq Din on BBC Sport, Mohamed Salah: Is Liverpool striker's success improving engagement with Muslim fans? A stone's throw from The Hawthorns is Oldbury, home to Baggies fan Ashley Rawlins.
He came on looking upon the ground, and did not see Bathsheba till they were less than a stone's throw apart.
1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 31, in Far From the Madding CrowdSynonyms: stonecast, stone's cast, stoneshot, stone's shot, hop, skip, and a jump
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA short distance, roughly equivalent to how far a person can throw a stone.
More synonyms by meaning
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Arabic عَلَى مَرْمَى حَجَر
- عَلَى مَرْمَى حَجَر (ʕalā marmā ḥajar)short distance
Czech co by kamenem dohodil
- co by kamenem dohodilshort distance
Danish stenkast
- stenkastshort distance
Dutch steenworp, boogscheut
- steenworpshort distance
- boogscheutshort distance
Estonian kiviviske kaugusel
- kiviviske kauguselshort distance
Finnish kivenheitto
- kivenheittoshort distance
French à deux pas, à un jet de pierre
- à deux passhort distance
- à un jet de pierreshort distance
German Steinwurf, Katzensprung
- Steinwurfshort distance
- Katzensprungshort distance
Hungarian kőhajításnyi
- kőhajításnyishort distance
Italian due passi, tiro di schioppo
- due passishort distance
- tiro di schiopposhort distance
Norwegian steinkast
- steinkastshort distance
Polish rzut beretem, rzut kamieniem
- rzut beretemshort distance
- rzut kamieniemshort distance
- żabi skokshort distance
Portuguese pedrada, tiro de pedra
- pedradashort distance
- tiro de pedrashort distance
Scottish Gaelic urchair chloiche
- urchair chloicheshort distance
Spanish a tiro de piedra
- a tiro de piedrashort distance
Swedish stenkast
- stenkastshort distance
Turkish iki adımlık mesafe
- iki adımlık mesafeshort distance
Welsh ergyd carreg
- ergyd carregshort distance
Cite this entry
stone's throw. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stone's%20throw
“stone's throw.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stone's%20throw. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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