1 a solid or hollow object with a round flat base and sides that slope up to a point
seealsoCONICAL
2 a solid or hollow object that is shaped like a cone:
a paper cone full of popcorn * the cone of a volcano
seealsoNOSE-CONE
3 (also traffic cone) a plastic object shaped like a cone and often red and white, or yellow, in colour, used on roads to show where vehicles are not allowed to go, for example while repairs are being done
4 (also old-fashioned cornet) a piece of thin crisp biscuit shaped like a cone, which you can put ice cream in to eat it
5 the hard dry fruit of a PINE or FIR tree:
a pine cone
seealsoFIRCONE
Part of speech: verb
PHRASALVERBS
cone sth<->off to close a road or part of a road by putting a line of cones across it:
Part of the road was coned off after the accident.
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