marble
marble is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc.
- noun. A thing made of, or resembling, marble, as a work of art, or record, in marble; or, in the plural, a collection of such works; as, the Arundel or Arundelian marbles; the Elgin marbles.
- noun. A little ball of marble, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles.
- adjective. Made of, or resembling, marble; as, a marble mantel; marble paper.
- adjective. Cold; hard; unfeeling; as, a marble breast or heart.
- noun. To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color; as, to marble the edges of a book, or the surface of paper.
- noun. a small ball of glass that is used in various games
- noun. a sculpture carved from marble
- noun. a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material
- verb. paint or stain like marble
"marble paper"
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in marble:
ambler, blamer, lamber, ramble
Common word forms
marbled, marbler, marbles, marbling, marbleise, marbleize, marbleness
Words from these letters
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