touchstones in English

noun

1

a piece of fine-grained dark schist or jasper formerly used for testing alloys of gold by observing the color of the mark that they made on it.

Small black stones were used as touchstones to test the colour, and hence purity, of gold.

noun

• criterion, standard, yardstick, benchmark, barometer, bellwether, litmus test, measure, point of reference, norm, gauge, test, guide, exemplar, model, pattern
• measure, criterion, standard

Use "touchstones" in a sentence

1. We had to rethink the issues and create new touchstones....

2. Calamity and prisperity are the touchstones of integrity.

3. 3 Calamity and prisperity are the touchstones of integrity.

4. The four main facets of your beliefs in unlife are Convictions, touchstones, ambitions, and desires

5. Even though Antimodernistic architecture and designs look to the past for inspiration, they are still touchstones to the future

6. The Civilians are an original band from Detroit, with touchstones in alternative, R&B, and meat and potatoes rock and roll