marble

Meaning of marble

noun
  1. a hard crystalline metamorphic form of limestone, typically white with coloured mottlings or streaks, which may be polished and is used in sculpture and architecture.
    the spotless white marble of the Taj Mahal
    a marble floor
  2. a small ball of coloured glass or similar material used as a toy.
  3. one's mental faculties.
    I thought she'd lost her marbles, asking a question like that
verb
  1. stain or streak (something) so that it looks like marble.
    the stone walls were marbled with moss and lichen

Middle English: via Old French (variant of marbre ), from Latin marmor, from Greek marmaros ‘shining stone’, associated with marmairein ‘to shine’.

Information about marble

  • The plural form of marble is: marbles.
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Hyphenation of marble

mar-ble

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • marble is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Translation of marble

Anagrams of marble

Ambler, ambler, Belmar, blamer, lamber, ramble

Words that rhyme with marble

Marble, barble, dismarble, emmarble, engarble, enmarble, garble, immarble, jarble, multimarble, outwarble, tarble, warble, jirble, wirble, gorble, worble, burble, fourble, sturble, turble

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