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An abundant rock of marine and freshwater sediments; primarily composed of calcite (CaCO₃); and occurring in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous.
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- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
  The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
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- 1939 July, “What the Railways are Doing: The New Ebbw Vale Steelworks”, in Railway Magazine, page 68:
  As each blast furnace uses 200 tons of limestone daily, and each limestone kiln 150 tons, a total of 730 tons of limestone has to be carried daily, in addition to limestone chippings, which are sold.
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- 2024 November 19, Nicola Venning, “Welcome to the Notswolds”, in Country Life‎, archived from the original on 14 May 2025:
  Rutland (and some of the bordering ‘Notswolds’ counties of Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire) have the same mellow, creamy limestone as the Cotswolds and boast beguiling market towns and villages that are every bit as attractive, but without the tourists or hefty prices.
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Synonyms

Hyponyms

(mineralogy): bluestone, burrstone, calp, coquina, coral rag, chalk, malm, marble, travertine, tufa

Derived terms

Translations

abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments

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Albanian: gur gëlqeror mCategory:Terms with Albanian translations#LIMESTONE
Arabic: حَجَر جِيرِيّ m (ḥajar jīriyy)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#LIMESTONE, حَجَر كِلْسِيّ m (ḥajar kilsiyy)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#LIMESTONE
Armenian: կրաքար (hy) (krakʻar)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#LIMESTONE
Azerbaijani: əhəngdaşı (az)Category:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#LIMESTONE
Basque: kareharri inanCategory:Terms with Basque translations#LIMESTONE
Belarusian: вапня́к m (vapnják)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#LIMESTONE
Bengali: ঘুটিং (bn) (ghuṭiṅ)Category:Terms with Bengali translations#LIMESTONE
Bulgarian: варо́вик (bg) (varóvik)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#LIMESTONE
Burmese: ထုံးကျောက် (my) (htum:kyauk)Category:Terms with Burmese translations#LIMESTONE
Catalan: pedra calcàriaCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#LIMESTONE
Chinese:
Mandarin: 石灰岩 (zh) (shíhuīyán)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#LIMESTONE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#LIMESTONE, 灰岩 (huīyán)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#LIMESTONE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#LIMESTONE, 青石 (zh) (qīngshí)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#LIMESTONE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#LIMESTONE (colloquial)
Czech: vápenec (cs) mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#LIMESTONE
Danish: kalksten (da) cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#LIMESTONE
Dutch: kalksteen (nl) nCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#LIMESTONE
Esperanto: kalkoŝtono (eo)Category:Terms with Esperanto translations#LIMESTONE
Estonian: lubjakiviCategory:Terms with Estonian translations#LIMESTONE
Finnish: kalkkikivi (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#LIMESTONE, kalkki (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#LIMESTONE
French: calcaire (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#LIMESTONE
Galician: calcaria (gl) fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#LIMESTONE
Georgian: კირქვა (ḳirkva)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#LIMESTONE
German: Kalkstein (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#LIMESTONE, Calciumcarbonat (de) nCategory:Terms with German translations#LIMESTONE, Kalk (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#LIMESTONE
Greek: ασβεστόλιθος (el) m (asvestólithos)Category:Terms with Greek translations#LIMESTONE
Hebrew: גִּיר (he) m (gir)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#LIMESTONE, אֶבֶן גִּיר f (even gir)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#LIMESTONE
Hindi: चूना पत्थर m (cūnā patthar)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#LIMESTONE
Hungarian: mészkő (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#LIMESTONE
Icelandic: kalksteinn (is)Category:Terms with Icelandic translations#LIMESTONE
Indonesian: batu kapur (id)Category:Terms with Indonesian translations#LIMESTONE
Ingrian: kalkkiCategory:Terms with Ingrian translations#LIMESTONE, kalkkikiviCategory:Terms with Ingrian translations#LIMESTONE
Irish: aolchloch fCategory:Terms with Irish translations#LIMESTONE, cloch aoil fCategory:Terms with Irish translations#LIMESTONE
Italian: calcare (it) mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#LIMESTONE
Japanese: 石灰岩 (ja) (せっかいがん, sekkaigan)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#LIMESTONE
Kazakh: әктас (kk) (äktas)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#LIMESTONE
Khmer: ថ្មកំបោរ (thmɑɑ kɑmbao)Category:Terms with Khmer translations#LIMESTONE, កំបោរថ្ម (kɑmbao thmɑɑ)Category:Terms with Khmer translations#LIMESTONE
Korean: 석회암(石灰岩) (ko) (seokhoeam)Category:Terms with Korean translations#LIMESTONE, 석회석(石灰石) (ko) (seokhoeseok)Category:Terms with Korean translations#LIMESTONE
Kyrgyz: акиташ (ky) (akitaş)Category:Terms with Kyrgyz translations#LIMESTONE
Lao: ຫິນປູນ (hin pūn)Category:Terms with Lao translations#LIMESTONE
Latin: calx fCategory:Terms with Latin translations#LIMESTONE
Latvian: kaļķakmens mCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#LIMESTONE
Lithuanian: klintis mCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#LIMESTONE
Macedonian: варовник m (varovnik)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#LIMESTONE
Malay: batu kapurCategory:Terms with Malay translations#LIMESTONE
Māori: pākehoCategory:Terms with Māori translations#LIMESTONE
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: шохойн чулуу (šoxojn čuluu)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#LIMESTONE
Nahuatl:
Classical Nahuatl: tenextetlCategory:Terms with Classical Nahuatl translations#LIMESTONE
Norman: pièrre dé caux fCategory:Terms with Norman translations#LIMESTONE (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kalkstein mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#LIMESTONE

Nynorsk: kalkstein mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#LIMESTONE
Occitan: calcari (oc) mCategory:Terms with Occitan translations#LIMESTONE, calquièr mCategory:Terms with Occitan translations#LIMESTONE
Persian: سنگ آهک (sang âhak)Category:Terms with Persian translations#LIMESTONE
Pitjantjatjara: arpataCategory:Terms with Pitjantjatjara translations#LIMESTONE
Plautdietsch: Kaulkjsteen nCategory:Terms with Plautdietsch translations#LIMESTONE
Polish: wapień (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#LIMESTONE
Portuguese: calcário (pt) mCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#LIMESTONE
Romanian: calcar (ro) nCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#LIMESTONE
Russian: известня́к (ru) m (izvestnják)Category:Terms with Russian translations#LIMESTONE
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кре̏чња̄к mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#LIMESTONE, вапне́нац mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#LIMESTONE

Latin: krȅčnjāk (sh) mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#LIMESTONE, vapnénac (sh) mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#LIMESTONE
Slovak: vápenec (sk) mCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#LIMESTONE
Slovene: apnenec (sl) mCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#LIMESTONE
Spanish: caliza (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#LIMESTONE
Swedish: kalksten (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#LIMESTONE
Tajik: оҳаксанг (ohaksang)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#LIMESTONE
Tatar: известьташ (izwestʹtaş)Category:Terms with Tatar translations#LIMESTONE
Thai: หินปูน (th) (hǐn-bpuun)Category:Terms with Thai translations#LIMESTONE
Tibetan: རྡོ་ཐལ་རྡོ (rdo thal rdo)Category:Terms with Tibetan translations#LIMESTONE, རྡོ་ཐལ་བྲག (rdo thal brag)Category:Terms with Tibetan translations#LIMESTONE
Turkish: kireç taşı (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#LIMESTONE; küfeki (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#LIMESTONE (fossiliferous limestone)
Turkmen: hek daşyCategory:Terms with Turkmen translations#LIMESTONE
Ukrainian: вапня́к (uk) m (vapnják)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#LIMESTONE
Urdu: چونا پتھر m (cūnā patthar)Category:Terms with Urdu translations#LIMESTONE
Uyghur: ھاك تېشى (hak tëshi)Category:Terms with Uyghur translations#LIMESTONE
Uzbek: ohaktosh (uz)Category:Terms with Uzbek translations#LIMESTONE
Vietnamese: đá vôi (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#LIMESTONE
Welsh: calchfaen (cy) mCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#LIMESTONE, carreg galch fCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#LIMESTONE

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