cone

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A solid shape with a round flat base and a point at the top.

   The children built a sandcastle topped with a tall cone.

2. 2
   noun

   Any object shaped like a cone, such as the holder for ice cream or a traffic marker.

   The workers placed orange cones around the hole in the road.

3. 3
   noun

   The hard, scaly fruit of a pine or fir tree that holds its seeds.

   We collected pine cones in the forest to make decorations.

4. 4
   verb

   To mark off an area using traffic cones.

   The lane was coned off while the road was repaired.

From Middle English cone (“corner, angle”) and conoun (“cone”), from Medieval Latin cōnus, cōnon (“cone, wedge, peak”), from Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone, spinning top, pine cone”). Reinforced by Middle French cone, from the same Graeco-Latin source.

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