Translate marble | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of marble
noun
1a hard crystalline metamorphic form of limestone, typically white with mottlings or streaks of color, that is capable of taking a polish and is used in sculpture and architecture. used in similes and comparisons with reference to the smoothness, hardness, or color of marble:her shoulders were as white as marble
2a small ball of colored glass or similar material used as a toy. (
marbles)
[treated as singular] a game in which small balls of colored glass are rolled along the ground.
3 (
one's marbles)
informal one’s mental faculties:I thought she’d lost her marbles, asking a question like that
verb
[with object] stain or streak (something) so that it looks like variegated marble:the low stone walls were marbled with moss and lichen
