Usually means: Naturally magnetized piece of magnetite.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word lodestone:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. lodestone: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lodestone: Merriam-Webster
  3. lodestone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lodestone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lodestone: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lodestone: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lodestone, lodestone: Wordnik
  8. lodestone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lodestone: Wiktionary
  10. lodestone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lodestone (loadstone): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lodestone: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. lodestone: Dictionary.com
  14. Lodestone (comics), Lodestone (disambiguation), Lodestone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Lodestone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. lodestone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. lodestone: Rhymezone
  18. lodestone: FreeDictionary.org
  19. lodestone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. lodestone: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Lodestone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lodestone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Lodestone: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A naturally occurring magnet.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) The mineral magnetite.

Similar:
loadstone, ferromagnetite, adamant, siderite, magnetite, lonestone, needlestone, magnetosome, lossenite, maghemite, more...

Opposite:
diamagnetic, nonmagnetic, repulsive

Types:
natural magnet, magnetite, maghemite, more...

Phrases:
lodestone or pyrite, more...

Adjectives:
spherical, natural, magnetic, great, powerful, giant, powdered, little, same, globular, huge

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Similar:
loadstone, ferromagnetite, adamant, siderite, magnetite, lonestone, needlestone, magnetosome, lossenite, maghemite, more...

Opposite:
diamagnetic, nonmagnetic, repulsive

Types:
natural magnet, magnetite, maghemite, more...

Phrases:
lodestone or pyrite, more...

Adjectives:
spherical, natural, magnetic, great, powerful, giant, powdered, little, same, globular, huge



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