STONE'S THROW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stone's throw mean? 

• STONE'S THROW (noun)
  The noun STONE'S THROW has 1 sense:

1. a short distance

  Familiarity information: STONE'S THROW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STONE'S THROW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A short distance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

step; stone's throw

Context example:

it's only a step to the drugstore

Hypernyms ("stone's throw" is a kind of...):

small indefinite amount; small indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude)

 Context examples 

Oh! 'tis a nice place! A butcher hard by in the village, and the parsonage-house within a stone's throw.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I was suddenly, upon turning the corner of a steepish downy field, in the midst of a retired little village between gently rising hills; a small stream before me to be forded, a church standing on a sort of knoll to my right—which church was strikingly large and handsome for the place, and not a gentleman or half a gentleman's house to be seen excepting one—to be presumed the Parsonage—within a stone's throw of the said knoll and church.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)