scholar's rock
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.15 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An unusually shaped rock, traditionally appreciated by Chinese scholars.
Example Sentences
- "The many Tibetans who traveled to Yuan and Ming China would have developed knowledge, experience, and appreciation for scholars' rocks."
- "The scholar's rock is placed across from the old moon gate I love so much, and LuLu decides to investigate it."
- "What the missionaries had sent to Bertin was the type now commonly referred to as a scholar's rock, sometimes fantastically contorted stones which would have been an indispensable fixture of a Chinese scholar's studio."