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Definitions for Marbles

[1] metamorphosed limestone, consisting chiefly of recrystallized calcite or dolomite, capable of taking a high polish, occurring in a wide range of colors and variegations and used in sculpture and architecture.
[2] any variety of this stone: Carrara marble.
[3] an object made of or carved from this stone, especially a sculpture: Renaissance marbles.
[4] a piece of this stone: the fallen marbles of Roman ruins.
[5] (not in technical use) any of various breccias or other stones that take a high polish and show a variegated pattern.
[6] a marbled appearance or pattern; marbling: The woodwork had a greenish marble.
[7] anything resembling marble in hardness, coldness, smoothness, etc.: a brow of marble.
[8] something lacking in warmth or feeling.
[9] a little ball made of stone, baked clay, glass, porcelain, agate, or steel, especially for use in games.
[10] marbles, (used with a singular verb ) a game for children in which a marble is propelled by the thumb to hit another marble so as to drive it out of a circle drawn or scratched on the ground.
[11] marbles, Slang . normal rational faculties; sanity; wits; common sense: to have all one's marbles; to lose one's marbles.
[12] consisting or made of marble.
[13] like marble, as in hardness, coldness, smoothness, etc.
[14] lacking in warmth, compassion, or sympathy: marble heart.
[15] of variegated or mottled color.
[16] to color or stain like variegated marble.
[17] to apply a decorative pattern to (paper, the edges of a book, etc.) by transferring oil pigments floating on water.
[18] (functioning as singular) a game in which marbles are rolled at one another, similar to bowls
[19] (functioning as plural) informal wits to lose one's marbles
[20] a hard crystalline metamorphic rock resulting from the recrystallization of a limestone: takes a high polish and is used for building and sculpture (as modifier ) a marble bust Related adjective: marmoreal
[21] a block or work of art of marble
[22] a small round glass or stone ball used in playing marbles
[23] make one's marble good Australian and NZ informal to succeed or do the right thing
[24] pass in one's marble Australian informal to die
[25] (tr) to mottle with variegated streaks in imitation of marble
[26] cold, hard, or unresponsive
[27] white like some kinds of marble

Words related to Marbles

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Words nearby Marbles

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Origin of Marbles

1150–1200; Middle English marbel, dissimilated variant of Old English marmel (in marmelstān marble stone) < Latin marmor < Greek mármaros, akin to marmaírein to sparkle

Other words from Marbles

mar·bler , noun
un·mar·bled , adjective

Word origin for Marbles

C12: via Old French from Latin marmor, from Greek marmaros, related to Greek marmairein to gleam

Synonyms for Marbles

attention, brain, consciousness, genius, head, imagination, instinct, intellect, judgment, mentality, perception, power, psyche, sense, soul, spirit, talent, thought, wisdom, apperception, brainpower, brains, capacity, cognizance, conception, creativity, faculty, function, ingenuity, intellectual, intuition, lucidity, observation, ratiocination, reason, reasoning, regard, sanity, soundness, thinker, understanding, wits, intellectuality, percipience