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marble
- Main Entry:
- 1mar·ble
- Pronunciation:
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\ˈmär-bəl\
- Function:
- noun
- Etymology:
- Middle English, from Anglo-French marbre, from Latin marmor, from Greek marmaros
- Date:
- 12th century
1 a: limestone that is more or less crystallized by metamorphism, that ranges from granular to compact in texture, that is capable of taking a high polish, and that is used especially in architecture and sculpture b: something (as a piece of sculpture) composed of or made from marble c: something suggesting marble (as in hardness, coldness, or smoothness) <a heart of marble>2 a: a little ball made of a hard substance (as glass) and used in various games bplural but sing in constr : any of several games played with these little balls cplural : the rewards to be won in competition especially for a championship —used in the phrase all the marbles<a game being played for all the marbles>3: marbling4plural : elements of common sense; especially : sanity <persons who are born without all their marbles— Arthur Miller>
— marble adjective
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