Usually means: Standard for evaluating quality or worth.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word touchstone:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. touchstone: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. touchstone: Merriam-Webster
  3. touchstone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. touchstone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. touchstone: Collins English Dictionary
  6. touchstone: Vocabulary.com
  7. Touchstone, touchstone: Wordnik
  8. touchstone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Touchstone, touchstone: Wiktionary
  10. touchstone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. touchstone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. touchstone: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. touchstone: Dictionary.com
  14. touchstone: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. touchstone: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Touchstone (album), The Touchstone, Touchstone (As You Like It), Touchstone (US-Irish band), Touchstone (album), Touchstone (assaying tool), Touchstone (band), Touchstone (disambiguation), Touchstone (horse), Touchstone (magazine), Touchstone (metaphor), Touchstone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Touchstone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. touchstone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. touchstone: Rhymezone
  20. touchstone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. touchstone: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. touchstone: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. touchstone: FreeDictionary.org
  24. touchstone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. touchstone: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. TouchStone (Band), Touchstone (stone), touchstone: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. TouchStone (Band), Touchstone (stone), touchstone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. touchstone: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Touchstone: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A stone used to verify the quality of gold alloys by rubbing them in order to leave a visible trace.
noun:  (figurative, by extension) A standard of comparison or evaluation.
noun:  A surname.

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