-ance
/(ə)ns/suffix
Forming nouns:
1Denoting a quality or state or an instance of one: allegiance extravagance perseverance
2Denoting an action: appearance utterance
Origin
From French -ance, from Latin -antia, -entia (from present participial stems -ant-, -ent-).
- stone curlew
- stonecutter
- stoned
- stone dead
- stone deaf
- Stone, Edward Durell
- stone face
- stone-faced
- stonefish
- stonefly
- stone fruit
- stoneground
- Stone, Harlan Fiske
- stonehatch
- Stonehenge
- stoneless
- stone lily
- Stone, Lucy
- stone marten
- stonemason
- stonemasonry
- stone me! (or stone the crows!)
- Stone Mountain
- stone of destiny
- Stone of Scone