adj
Meaning 1
Made of, or resembling, marble.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a marble mantel
- marble paper
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
marble
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɑː.bəl/
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Received-Pronunciation: [ˈmɑː.bəl] ~ [ˈmɑː.bl̩]
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General-American: /ˈmɑɹ.bəl/
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General-American: [ˈmɑɹ.bəl] ~ [ˈmɑɹ.bl̩]
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rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)bəl
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UK: /ˈmɑː.bəl/
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US: /ˈmɑɹ.bəl/
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adj
Meaning 2
Cold; hard; unfeeling.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Examples
- a marble heart
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 3
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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name
Meaning 4
A statutory town in Gunnison County, Colorado.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
A metamorphic rock of crystalline limestone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences, petrology
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: metamorphic rock, rock, stone, material
noun
Meaning 6
A small ball used in games, originally of marble but now usually of glass or ceramic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: games
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
Statues made from marble.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, in-plural, uncountable
Topics: archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences
Examples
- The Elgin Marbles were originally part of the temple of the Parthenon.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
The marbling in meat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- The marble is graded using the Australian system.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 9
To cause (something to have) the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example by mixing viscous ingredients incompletely, or by applying paint or other colorants unevenly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: marbleize
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 10
To get or have the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example due to the incomplete mixing of viscous ingredients, or the uneven application of paint or other colorants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 11
To cause meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb, to be interlaced with fat so that its appearance resembles that of marble.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: marbleize
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 12
To become interlaced with fat; (of fat) to interlace through meat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Qualifier: especially beef
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 13
To lace or be laced throughout.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, figuratively
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 14
a small ball of glass that is used in various games
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ball
Narrower terms: taw, shooter
noun
Meaning 15
a sculpture carved from marble
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sculpture
noun
Meaning 16
a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rock, stone
Narrower terms: verd antique, verde antique
verb
Meaning 17
paint or stain like marble
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- marble paper
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: stain
History
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English marble, marbre; from Anglo-Norman and Old French marbre, from Latin marmor, from Ancient Greek μάρμαρος (mármaros), perhaps related to μαρμάρεος (marmáreos, “gleaming”). The forms from French displaced Old English marma, which had previously been borrowed from Latin.
Across languages
Translations
291 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Esperanto: marmora — made of marble
- German: marmorn — made of marble
- Marathi: संगमरवरी (saṅgmaravrī) — made of marble
- Tamil: பளிங்காலான (paḷiṅkālāṉa) — made of marble
- Afrikaans: marmer — crystalline limestone
- Southern Altai: мрамор (mramor) — crystalline limestone
- Arabic: رُخَام (ruḵām) — crystalline limestone
- Arabic: رخام (ruḵām) — crystalline limestone
- Arabic: رخام (rḵām) — crystalline limestone
- Aragonese: marbre — crystalline limestone
- Aramaic: שישא (šīšā) — crystalline limestone
- Armenian: մարմար (marmar) — crystalline limestone
- Aromanian: marmar — crystalline limestone
- Aromanian: marmurã — crystalline limestone
- Aromanian: marmuri — crystalline limestone
- Aromanian: mirmer — crystalline limestone
- Assamese: মৰ্মৰ (mormor) — crystalline limestone
- Assamese: মাৰ্বল (marrol) — crystalline limestone
- Asturian: mármole — crystalline limestone
- Asturian: mármol — crystalline limestone
- Azerbaijani: mərmər — crystalline limestone
- Bashkir: мәрмәр (mərmər) — crystalline limestone
- Basque: marmol — crystalline limestone
- Belarusian: ма́рмур (mármur) — crystalline limestone
- Breton: marbr — crystalline limestone
- Bulgarian: мрамор (mramor) — crystalline limestone
- Burmese: စကျင်ကျောက် (ca.kyangkyauk) — crystalline limestone
- Catalan: marbre — crystalline limestone
- Cherokee: ᎦᏓᏲᏍᏗ (gadayosdi) — crystalline limestone
- Chinese Cantonese: 雲石 /云石 (wan4 sek6) — crystalline limestone
- Chinese Cantonese: 大理石 (daai6 lei5 sek6) — crystalline limestone
- Hakka Chinese: 大理石 (thai-lî-sa̍k) — crystalline limestone
- Chinese: 大理石 (zh-min-nan) — crystalline limestone
- Chinese: 石石 (sia̍h-chio̍h) — crystalline limestone
- Chinese Mandarin: 大理石 (dàlǐshí) — crystalline limestone
- Crimean Tatar: mermer — crystalline limestone
- Czech: mramor — crystalline limestone
- Danish: marmor — crystalline limestone
- Dutch: marmer — crystalline limestone
- Elfdalian: marmor — crystalline limestone
- Esperanto: marmoro — crystalline limestone
- Estonian: marmor — crystalline limestone
- Faroese: marmor — crystalline limestone
- Finnish: marmori — crystalline limestone
- French: marbre — crystalline limestone
- Middle French: marbre — crystalline limestone
- Old French: marbre — crystalline limestone
- West-Frisian: moarmer — crystalline limestone
- Friulian: marmul — crystalline limestone
- Galician: mármore — crystalline limestone
- Georgian: მარმარილო (marmarilo) — crystalline limestone
- German: Marmor — crystalline limestone
- Greek: μάρμαρο (mármaro) — crystalline limestone
- Ancient Greek: μάρμαρος (mármaros) — crystalline limestone
- Greenlandic: maarmori — crystalline limestone
- Gujarati: આરસપહાણ (ārasaphāṇ) — crystalline limestone
- Hebrew: שיש (sháyish) — crystalline limestone
- Hindi: संगमरमर (saṅgmarmar) — crystalline limestone
- Hungarian: márvány — crystalline limestone
- Icelandic: marmari — crystalline limestone
- Ido: marmoro — crystalline limestone
- Indonesian: marmer — crystalline limestone
- Indonesian: pualam — crystalline limestone
- Ingrian: mraamori — crystalline limestone
- Irish: marmar — crystalline limestone
- Italian: marmo — crystalline limestone
- Japanese: 大理石 (dairiseki) — crystalline limestone
- Japanese: マーブル (māburu) — crystalline limestone
- Kalmyk: һаньтг (ğanʹtg) — crystalline limestone
- Kannada: ಅಮೃತಶಿಲೆ (amṛtaśile) — crystalline limestone
- Karachay-Balkar: мермер (mermer) — crystalline limestone
- Kazakh: мәрмәр (märmär) — crystalline limestone
- Korean: 대리석 (daeriseok) — crystalline limestone
- Central Kurdish: مەڕمەڕ (merrmerr) — crystalline limestone
- Northern Kurdish: mermer — crystalline limestone
- Latin: marmor — crystalline limestone
- Latvian: marmors — crystalline limestone
- Limburgish: marmer — crystalline limestone
- Lithuanian: marmuras — crystalline limestone
- Macedonian: мермер (mermer) — crystalline limestone
- Malagasy: kanety — crystalline limestone
- Malay: marmar — crystalline limestone
- Maltese: rħam — crystalline limestone
- Manx: marmyr — crystalline limestone
- Māori: māpere — crystalline limestone
- Marathi: संगमरवर (saṅgmarvar) — crystalline limestone
- Mirandese: mármole — crystalline limestone
- Mongolian: гантиг (gantig) — crystalline limestone
- Neapolitan: marmulo — crystalline limestone
- Newar: दुरुल्वहं (durulwahaṃ) — crystalline limestone
- Nogai: мермер (mermer) — crystalline limestone
- Norwegian Bokmål: marmor — crystalline limestone
- Norwegian Nynorsk: marmor — crystalline limestone
- Occitan: marbre — crystalline limestone
- Occitan: marme — crystalline limestone
- Occitan: maubre — crystalline limestone
- Old East Slavic: мороморъ (moromorŭ) — crystalline limestone
- Old English: marmstān — crystalline limestone
- Ossetian: мармӕр (marmær) — crystalline limestone
- Persian: مرمر (marmar) — crystalline limestone
- Polish: marmur — crystalline limestone
- Portuguese: mármore — crystalline limestone
- Punjabi: ਮਰਮਰ (marmar) — crystalline limestone
- Punjabi: ਸੰਗਮਰਮਰ (saṅgmaramar) — crystalline limestone
- Quechua: pachar — crystalline limestone
- Romanian: marmură — crystalline limestone
- Romansh: marmel — crystalline limestone
- Russian: мра́мор (mrámor) — crystalline limestone
- Sardinian: màrmuri — crystalline limestone
- Sardinian: màrmuru — crystalline limestone
- Sardinian: mràmuri — crystalline limestone
- Scottish Gaelic: marmor — crystalline limestone
- Serbo-Croatian: мрамор — crystalline limestone
- Serbo-Croatian: мермер — crystalline limestone
- Serbo-Croatian: mramor — crystalline limestone
- Serbo-Croatian: mermer — crystalline limestone
- Shor: мармар (marmar) — crystalline limestone
- Sicilian: màrmuru — crystalline limestone
- Sinhalese: කිරිගරුඩ (kirigaruḍa) — crystalline limestone
- Slovak: mramor — crystalline limestone
- Slovene: mármor — crystalline limestone
- Spanish: mármol — crystalline limestone
- Spanish: alioj (disused) — crystalline limestone
- Swedish: marmor — crystalline limestone
- Tagalog: batumbuhay — crystalline limestone
- Tagalog: marmol — crystalline limestone
- Tamil: பளிங்கு (paḷiṅku) — crystalline limestone
- Tamil: சலவைக்கல் (calavaikkal) — crystalline limestone
- Tatar: мәрмәр (märmär) — crystalline limestone
- Telugu: చలువఱాయి (caluvaṟāyi) — crystalline limestone
- Thai: หินอ่อน (hǐn-ɔ̀ɔn) — crystalline limestone
- Turkish: mermer — crystalline limestone
- Ottoman Turkish: مرمر (mermer) — crystalline limestone
- Ukrainian: ма́рмур (mármur) — crystalline limestone
- Urdu: سنگ مرمر (sang-e-marmar) — crystalline limestone
- Urdu: مرمر (marmar) — crystalline limestone
- Uyghur: مەرمەر (mermer) — crystalline limestone
- Uzbek: marmar — crystalline limestone
- Venetan: màrmaro — crystalline limestone
- Venetan: marmo — crystalline limestone
- Venetan: màlmaro — crystalline limestone
- Venetan: marmor — crystalline limestone
- Vietnamese: đá hoa — crystalline limestone
- Vietnamese: cẩm thạch — crystalline limestone
- Volapük: maboin — crystalline limestone
- Welsh: marmor — crystalline limestone
- Yakut: мрамор (mramor) — crystalline limestone
- Yiddish: מאַרמאָר (marmor) — crystalline limestone
- Yiddish: מאַרמער (marmer) — crystalline limestone
- Yiddish: מירמל (mirml) — crystalline limestone
- Afrikaans: albaster — spherical ball
- Arabic: بِلْيَة (bilya) — spherical ball
- Arabic: بِلِي (/ˈbɪli/) — spherical ball
- Arabic: تِيلَة (tīla) — spherical ball
- Arabic: بَرَجون (barajōn) — spherical ball
- Arabic: دحل (daḥal, duḥal, duḥul, duḥl, diḥl, diḥil) — spherical ball
- Arabic: دحلة (daḥle, duḥle, diḥle) — spherical ball
- Arabic: كلة (gulle, guḷḷa, gille) — spherical ball
- Arabic: كل (gull, guḷḷ, gill, giḷḷ) — spherical ball
- Tunisian Arabic: بيسة (bīsa) — spherical ball
- Tunisian Arabic: بيسة (bīsa) — spherical ball
- Armenian: շարիկ (šarik) — spherical ball
- Assamese: বিৰিং গুটি (biriṅ guti) — spherical ball
- Asturian: banzón — spherical ball
- Asturian: bolicha — spherical ball
- Asturian: renra — spherical ball
- Azerbaijani: mazı — spherical ball
- Basque: puxtarri — spherical ball
- Biatah Bidayuh: gurii — spherical ball
- Bulgarian: топче (topče) — spherical ball
- Burmese: ကျောက်ဒိုး (kyaukdui:) — spherical ball
- Catalan: bala — spherical ball
- Chinese Cantonese: 波子 (bo1 zi2) — spherical ball
- Hakka Chinese: 圓珠仔 /圆珠仔 (yèn-chû-é) — spherical ball
- Chinese Mandarin: 彈珠 /弹珠 (dànzhū) — spherical ball
- Chinese Mandarin: 彈子 /弹子 (dànzi) — spherical ball
- Czech: kulička — spherical ball
- Czech: kuličky — spherical ball
- Danish: marmorkugle — spherical ball
- Dutch: knikker — spherical ball
- Esperanto: globeto — spherical ball
- Finnish: marmorikuula — spherical ball
- Finnish: lasikuula — spherical ball
- Finnish: pissikivi — spherical ball
- French: bille — spherical ball
- French: grillot — spherical ball
- French: canique — spherical ball
- Galician: bóla — spherical ball
- German: Murmel — spherical ball
- Greek: βώλος (vólos) — spherical ball
- Greek: βόλος (vólos) — spherical ball
- Hebrew: גולה (gúla) — spherical ball
- Hebrew: גולות (gúlot) — spherical ball
- Hungarian: golyó — spherical ball
- Hungarian: üveggolyó — spherical ball
- Indonesian: kelereng — spherical ball
- Irish: mirlín — spherical ball
- Italian: biglia — spherical ball
- Italian: pallina — spherical ball
- Japanese: ビー玉 (bī-dama) — spherical ball
- Javanese: ꦝꦶꦂ (dhir) — spherical ball
- Javanese: ꦏꦼꦤꦺꦏꦼꦂ (kenèker) — spherical ball
- Javanese: ꦤꦺꦏꦼꦂ (nèker) — spherical ball
- Javanese: ꦱꦼꦠꦶꦤ꧀ (setin) — spherical ball
- Kazakh: кішкене шар (kışkene şar) — spherical ball
- Korean: 구슬 (guseul) — spherical ball
- Central Kurdish: ھەڵمات (hellmat) — spherical ball
- Northern Kurdish: tebel — spherical ball
- Northern Kurdish: xar — spherical ball
- Luxembourgish: Jick — spherical ball
- Macedonian: џамлија (džamlija) — spherical ball
- Malay: ݢولي — spherical ball
- Malay: ݢوندو — spherical ball
- Malay: جاکا — spherical ball
- Malay: کلرڠ — spherical ball
- Malay: guli — spherical ball
- Malay: gundu — spherical ball
- Malay: jaka — spherical ball
- Malay: kelerang — spherical ball
- Māori: hītimi — spherical ball
- Marathi: गोटी (goṭī) — spherical ball
- Marshallese: bo̧o̧ļ — spherical ball
- Musi: ékar — spherical ball
- Navajo: máázo — spherical ball
- Norwegian: klinkekule — spherical ball
- Persian: تیله (tile) — spherical ball
- Polish: szklana kulka — spherical ball
- Portuguese: bola de gude — spherical ball
- Portuguese: berlinde — spherical ball
- Russian: ша́рик (šárik) — spherical ball
- Russian: марбл (marbl) — spherical ball
- Scottish Gaelic: marbal — spherical ball
- Scottish Gaelic: drillean — spherical ball
- Scottish Gaelic: mirleag — spherical ball
- Scottish Gaelic: triuirean — spherical ball
- Serbo-Croatian: кликер — spherical ball
- Serbo-Croatian: kliker — spherical ball
- Slovak: guľôčka — spherical ball
- Slovene: frníkola — spherical ball
- Slovene: ščínka (Littoral) — spherical ball
- Spanish: canica — spherical ball
- Spanish: balita — spherical ball
- Spanish: bola — spherical ball
- Spanish: bola de cristal — spherical ball
- Spanish: bola de vidrio — spherical ball
- Spanish: boliche — spherical ball
- Spanish: bolincha — spherical ball
- Spanish: bolindre — spherical ball
- Spanish: bolita — spherical ball
- Spanish: cachina — spherical ball
- Spanish: chibola — spherical ball
- Spanish: mable — spherical ball
- Spanish: maule — spherical ball
- Spanish: mebli — spherical ball
- Spanish: metra — spherical ball
- Spanish: picha — spherical ball
- Spanish: cuica — spherical ball
- Spanish: bolinche — spherical ball
- Spanish: mable — spherical ball
- Spanish: macaco — spherical ball
- Sundanese: kaléci — spherical ball
- Swedish: kula — spherical ball
- Swedish: spelkula — spherical ball
- Tagalog: holen — spherical ball
- Tamil: கோலி (kōli) — spherical ball
- Tamil: கோலிக்குண்டு (kōlikkuṇṭu) — spherical ball
- Tamil: போளை (pōḷai) — spherical ball
- Tausug: hūlin — spherical ball
- Thai: ลูกแก้ว (lûuk-gɛ̂ɛo) — spherical ball
- Turkish: misket — spherical ball
- Turkish: bilye — spherical ball
- Volapük: glöpil — spherical ball
- Welsh: marblen — spherical ball
- Welsh: marblys — spherical ball
- Asturian: xaspiar — to cause to have the streaked appearance of marble
- Catalan: marbrar — to cause to have the streaked appearance of marble
- Catalan: mabrejar — to cause to have the streaked appearance of marble
- Czech: mramorovat — to cause to have the streaked appearance of marble
- Finnish: marmoroida — to cause to have the streaked appearance of marble
- French: marbrer — to cause to have the streaked appearance of marble
- Galician: xaspear — to cause to have the streaked appearance of marble
- German: marmorieren — to cause to have the streaked appearance of marble
- Irish: marmaraigh — to cause to have the streaked appearance of marble
- Spanish: jaspear — to cause to have the streaked appearance of marble
- Swedish: marmorera — to cause to have the streaked appearance of marble
- Turkish: ebrulamak — to cause to have the streaked appearance of marble
- Turkish: harelemek — to cause to have the streaked appearance of marble
- Finnish: marmoroitua — to get the streaked appearance of marble
- Finnish: marmoroida — to cause meat to be interlaced with fat
- Catalan: marbrejar — to become interlaced with fat
- Finnish: marmoroitua — to become interlaced with fat
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