stable
/ˈsteɪ.bəl/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.48 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.
noun
All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
noun
A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
noun
A group of people who are looked after, mentored, considered or trained in one place or for a particular purpose or profession.
Example Sentences
- "There were stalls for fourteen horses in the squire's stables."
- "We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day."
- "Paul, who signed with WWE in late June, appeared in a segment with Reigns' stable, the Bloodline, on Friday's episode of SmackDown after making comments earlier in the week regarding a potential match with the Tribal Chief."
- "My pimp vision enabled me to see that no hoe in my stable would be more worthy of the game than my young turnout red-bones."
- "This Article argues that to date, the Supreme Court has drawn from a narrow stable of arguments to create a fairly standard, yet coarse, analysis to consider when to apply proximate cause to statutes."
- "Built into the popular conception of the genius mythos in the sciences is something more than mere intelligence; the solitary free-thinking scientist is also expected to showcase a proclivity for eccentricity, rule breaking, and unconventional thinking and behavior. But when it comes to the abuse of scientific power for sexual predation, this stable of behaviors represents a slippery slope."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *sth₂dʰlóm Proto-Italic *staðlom Latin stab(u)lum Anglo-Norman stablebor. Middle English stable English stable Inherited from Middle English stable, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stable, from Latin stab(u)lum. From Middle English stable, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stable, from Latin stab(u)lum.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *steh₂-, stable, estable, stabulum, stabilis
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsteɪ.bəl/
- British English: /ˈsteɪ.bəl/
Usage
Inflected Forms
stables (plural)
stables (alternative, UK)
stables (present, singular)
stabling (participle, present)
stabled (participle, past)
stabled (past)
stabler (comparative)
more stable (comparative)
stablest (superlative)
most stable (superlative)