marble
3 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural
marbles
plural
marbles
Britannica Dictionary definition of MARBLE
1
[noncount]
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a kind of stone that is often polished and used in buildings and statues
— often used before another noun
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The statue is made of marble.
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a block of marble
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the museum's polished marble floor/staircase
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a marble countertop
2
a
[count]
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a little glass ball used in some children's games
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I love to play with marbles.
b
marbles
[noncount]
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a children's game played with little glass balls
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Let's play marbles. = Let's play a game of marbles.
lose your marbles
informal + humorous
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to become insane
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When he started ranting about how the government was out to get him, I thought he'd lost his marbles. [=gone crazy]
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He hasn't completely lost his marbles yet.
