Associations to the word «Keystone»

Wiktionary

KEYSTONE, noun. (architecture) The top stone of an arch.
KEYSTONE, noun. A native or resident of the American state of Pennsylvania.
KEYSTONE, proper noun. A CDP in Colorado.
KEYSTONE, proper noun. A city/town in Iowa.
KEYSTONE, proper noun. A ghost town in North Dakota.
KEYSTONE, proper noun. A town in South Dakota.
KEYSTONE CORNER, noun. (baseball) Second base, because it is often the key to scoring and defense.
KEYSTONE PRICING, noun. (business) (marketing) A pricing method, where the price is doubled at each level of distribution.
KEYSTONE SPECIES, noun. (ecology) A species that exerts a large, stabilizing influence throughout an ecological community, despite its relatively small numerical abundance.
KEYSTONE STATE, proper noun. (informal) Pennsylvania

Dictionary definition

KEYSTONE, noun. A central cohesive source of support and stability; "faith is his anchor"; "the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money"; "he is the linchpin of this firm".
KEYSTONE, noun. The central building block at the top of an arch or vault.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca