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# scone

«scone» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small, slightly sweet, round baked cake, often eaten…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a scone, scones)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A scone is a small, slightly sweet, round baked cake, often eaten with butter, jam and cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scone/#m1)

2) (Australia, NZ, informal) Scone can mean the head: "Use your scone!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scone/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In UK, Irish, Australian and NZ food culture: cream teas with scones, jam and clotted cream; in North America a scone is often a sweeter, triangle-shaped bake. In cooking and maths: recipes for scones, doubling quantities. Phrases: cream tea, scones with jam, fruit scones, cheese scones.

### examples

- We had scones with jam and cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scone/#x1)
- Gran bakes cheese scones every Sunday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scone/#x2)
- The recipe makes 12 scones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scone/#x3)
- "Use your scone!" said the coach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scone/#x4)
- Put the jam on before the cream, or after — people argue about it! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scone/#x5)
- The fruit scones were still warm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scone/#x6)
- Even Prince was fed on beefsteaks and cream scones till at last he was as round as a butter jar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scone/#x7)

### note

Countable. Two ways to say it: rhymes with "gone" or with "stone" — both are correct, and people argue about it. In maths: if the recipe makes 12 scones with 300 g flour, 24 scones need 600 g.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scone» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scone/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.