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Noun rosetta stone has 1 sense

rosetta stone(n = noun.communication) - 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;

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rosetta stone, n. a key to previously unattainable understanding.

Etymology

a stone found near Rosetta in Egypt, with a trilingual inscription of the 2nd c. BC in Egyptian hieroglyphs, demotic, and Greek, important in the decipherment of hieroglyphs