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Definition of Stepping stone

1. Noun. A stone in a marsh or shallow water that can be stepped on in crossing.

2. Noun. Any means of advancement. "The job was just a stepping stone on his way to fame and riches"

Definition of Stepping stone

1. Noun. A stone that can be stepped on in crossing something, especially a marsh or creek ¹

2. Noun. (idiomatic) Something used as a way to progress to something or somewhere else. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stepping Stone

stepped stepped-up stepped back stepped line steppelike stepper steppers steppes stepping stepping-stone

stepping back stepping down stepping motor stepping motors stepping razor stepping stone stepping stones steppingstone steppingstones steprelationship

steps steps back stepsib stepsibling stepsiblings stepsibs stepsis stepsister stepsisters stepsize

Literary usage of Stepping stone

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV. and King by Charles Greville (1874)
"Is. The Stepping-Stone to Geography : Containing several Hundred ... The Stepping-Stone to English History; Questions and Answers on the History of England. ..."

2. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1875)
"The Stepping-Stone to Knowledge; or upwards 0/700 Questions ... Second Series of the Stepping- Stone to Ktwu'ledge : Containing upwards of 800 Questions and ..."

3. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the by Thomas Erskine May (1875)
"The STEPPING-STONE to BIOGRAPHY; Questions and Answers on the Lives of Eminent ... The STEPPING-STONE to MUSIC: Containing several Hundred Questions on the ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"673, it was held that a stepping-stone to facilitate access to carriages, ... In the course of the opinion the court said : "The stepping-stone in this case ..."

5. On concussion of the spine, nervous shock, and other obscure injuries of the by John Eric Erichsen (1875)
"The stepping stone to ENGLISH HISTORY; Questions and Answers on the History of ... The STEPPING-STONE to MUSIC: Containing several Hundred Questions on the ..."

6. Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill (1871)
"The stepping stone to Geography: Containing several Hundred Questions and ... Second Series of the stepping stone to Knowledge: containing upwards of Eight ..."

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