Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rosetta_stone

1 sense of rosetta stone

Sense 1
Rosetta Stone -- (a part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in 196 BC; the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics)
       INSTANCE OF=> stele, stela -- (an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings)