Stable

Quick meaning: Stable is a noun meaning A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.

Meaning

A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.

More Meanings

1. (metonymic) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
2. (Scotland) A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
3. (sumo) An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.
4. (professional wrestling) A group of wrestlers who support each other within a wrestling storyline.
5. A group of people who are looked after, mentored, considered or trained in one place or for a particular purpose or profession.
6. A coherent or consistent set of things (typically abstract) available or presented; array.
7. (slang) A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp.

Example Sentences

There were stalls for fourteen horses in the squire's stables.

"I hope your have been quite comfortable." ¶ "Never better stabled in my life," said Bree.

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.

Word Forms

• stables
• stabling
• stabled
• stabler
• stablest

Synonyms for stable

Depending on context, synonyms include fixed, unvarying, horsebarn, heya, string, static.

Antonyms for stable

Common opposites include instable, mobile, varying.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stabile, unreactive, balanced, firm, steady, lasting.

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