Dictionary Entry
sable
sable is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, adjective, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 12 senses
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- 1noun
A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur.
- 2noun
The fur of the sable.
- 3noun
A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural.
- 4noun
The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other.
- 5adjective
Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry.
- 6transitive verb
To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black.
- 7noun
marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
- 8noun
a scarf (or trimming) made of sable
- 9noun
an artist's brush made of sable hairs
- 10noun
a very dark black
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- 11noun
the expensive dark brown fur of the marten
- 12adjective
of a dark somewhat brownish black
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