English Explanatory Dictionary

stable

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.
  2. All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
  3. A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
  4. An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.
  5. A group of wrestlers who support each other within a wrestling storyline.
  6. A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp.
  7. A group of people who are looked after, mentored, considered or trained in one place or for a particular purpose or profession.
  8. A coherent or consistent set of things (typically abstract) available or presented; array.
verb
  1. To put or keep (an animal) in a stable.
  2. To dwell in a stable.
  3. To park (a rail vehicle).
adj
  1. Relatively unchanging, steady, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
  2. Of software: established to be relatively free of bugs, as opposed to a beta version.
  3. That maintains the relative order of items that compare as equal.
  4. Eventually satisfying the identity IM_n=M_n+1.

Pronunciation

/ˈsteɪ.bəl/ [ˈsteɪ.bl̩] LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-stable.wav

Word forms

stable stables stabling stabled stabler more stable stablest most stable

Etymology

From Middle English stable, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stable, from Latin stab(u)lum.

Synonyms

horsebarn heya string unvarying fixed

Antonyms

instable mobile unstable varying

Related words

restable stabled stabler stabling siding

Derived words

Augean stables boarding stable close the stable door after the horse has been stolen close the stable door after the horse has bolted livery stable lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen lock the stable door after the horse has bolted shelf-stable shut the stable door after the horse has bolted stable boy stable fly stableful stable girl stablehand stablekeeper stable lad stableless stablelike stableman stablemaster stablemate stable-stand stable vice stableward stablewards stablewoman stableyard outstable acidostable acid-stable aerostable antistable astable biostable bistable chemostable cryostable dorsostable evolutionarily stable strategy halostable heterostable hydrostable hyperstable hypostable innermost stable circular orbit instable isostable mechanostable mesostable metastable monostable multistable nonstable observationally stable overstable photostable polystable quasistable semistable stabilify
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