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Synonyms of keystone
an immaterial thing upon which something else rests
- a sense of history is the keystone to the city's draw as a tourist destination
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Words Related to keystone
- anchorage,
- bed,
- brace,
- bulwark,
- buttress,
- framework,
- infrastructure,
- mount,
- prop,
- shore,
- stay,
- substratum,
- substructure,
- support
- assumption,
- justification,
- premise
- (also premiss),
- presumption,
- presupposition,
- rationale,
- supposition,
- theory,
- thesis,
- warrant
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The first known use of keystone was circa 1637
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