hailstone C2 Topic:Weather & Climate US /ˈheɪlˌstoʊn/ UK /ˈheɪl.stəʊn/ See IPA manual Freq #131664 Meanings 1 noun a single ball or irregular lump of ice that falls from a storm cloud as hail A hailstone struck the greenhouse roof and cracked one of its panes. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a single ball or irregular... hail pellet Word family Forms hailstones Related forms hailhailstormsleet Etymology From Middle English hailston and Old English hagolstan, a compound of the ancestors of hail and stone. The name compares each hard pellet of frozen precipitation to a small stone. Topics Weather & Climate External links Google Images Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary # hailstone **Type:** Word **Level:** C2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈheɪlˌstoʊn/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈheɪl.stəʊn/ **Frequency rank:** 131664 ## Meanings 1. a single ball or irregular lump of ice that falls from a storm cloud as hail ## Examples - A hailstone struck the greenhouse roof and cracked one of its panes. ## Synonyms - hail pellet ## Related Forms - hail - hailstorm - sleet ## Etymology From Middle English hailston and Old English hagolstan, a compound of the ancestors of hail and stone. The name compares each hard pellet of frozen precipitation to a small stone. ## Topics - Weather & Climate markdown