Noun: marble
| Singular | marble |
| Plural | marbles |
Sample Sentences
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Open thy marble jaws, O tomb / And hide me, earth, in thy dark womb. [1751, George Frideric Handel, Thomas Morell (librettist), Jephtha:]
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The Elgin Marbles were originally part of the temple of the Parthenon.
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[I]t was a portrait of the Library, though not strictly correct as to its contents, since all the best of the marbles displayed in various parts of the house were brought into the painting by the artist, who made it up into a picturesque composition according to his own taste. [1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 164:]
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The marble is graded using the Australian system.
Nouns inflected like marble
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
marble', Middle English Nouns '
marble', Latin Nouns '
marmor', Ancient Greek Nouns '
μάρμαρος'.