rosetta stone
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A large inscribed stone found near Rosetta, Egypt, in 1799, later used as a basis for understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing.
name
Any source of information crucial to interpreting.
Example Sentences
- "My friend’s carefully-compiled notebook was the Rosetta Stone that opened up understanding of the physics lectures."
- "Deputy team leader Larry Soderblom and team member Carl Sagan argued that the surfaces of these satellites, in their cratering history, would be a Rosetta stone for understanding the early years of the outer solar system."
Inflected Forms
the Rosetta Stone (canonical)