Definitions for Marble

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Marble mar·ble

Spelling: [mahr-buh l]

IPA: /ˈmɑr bəl/

Marble is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 151 anagrams from letters in Marble (abelmr).

Definitions for Marble

noun

1. metamorphosed limestone, consisting chiefly of recrystallized calcite or dolomite, capable of taking a high polish, occurring in a wide range of colors and variegations and used in sculpture and architecture.
2. any variety of this stone:
3. an object made of or carved from this stone, especially a sculpture:
4. a piece of this stone:
5. (not in technical use) any of various breccias or other stones that take a high polish and show a variegated pattern.
6. a marbled appearance or pattern; marbling:
7. anything resembling marble in hardness, coldness, smoothness, etc.:
8. something lacking in warmth or feeling.
9. a little ball made of stone, baked clay, glass, porcelain, agate, or steel, especially for use in games.
10. marbles, (used with a singular verb) a game for children in which a marble is propelled by the thumb to hit another marble so as to drive it out of a circle drawn or scratched on the ground.
11. marbles, Slang. normal rational faculties; sanity; wits; common sense:
12. Alice, 1913–90, U.S. tennis player.

adjective

1. consisting or made of marble.
2. like marble, as in hardness, coldness, smoothness, etc.
3. lacking in warmth, compassion, or sympathy:
4. of variegated or mottled color.

verb (used with object)

1. to color or stain like variegated marble.
2. to apply a decorative pattern to (paper, the edges of a book, etc.) by transferring oil pigments floating on water.

Origin of Marble

1150-1200; Middle English marbel, dissimilated variant of Old English marmel (in marmelstān marble stone) Latin marmor Greek mármaros, akin to marmaírein to sparkle

Examples for Marble

As she rose, her face changed, she gave a cry, and fell upon the marble floor.

At the first glimpse of the terrible head of Medusa, they whitened into marble!

Carrara marble has been quarried as far back as Roman times and was used by emperors for massive monuments like the Rome Pantheon.

It was motionless as marble; but never had she seen anything so beautiful, and so unearthly.

Wedged between two marble buildings at the lavishly designed Lincoln Center, sits a single white tent.

From this marble Phidias sculptured a statue of Vengeance, which was called Rhamnusia.

The moon shone on them; they looked as if they were carved with marble.

A civilian named Richard Gabrielle was trapped under a pile of marble, but alive during those last minutes.

He rests lavishly, depicted in a marble sarcophagus that stares up for eternity at the carved depictions of his life story.

“Expansion favors everyone,” added the 79-year-old Tuscan, who started off as a bookkeeper in a marble firm in 1955.