Usually means: Metamorphic rock used in sculpture.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word marble:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. marble: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. marble: Merriam-Webster
  3. marble: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. marble: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. marble: Collins English Dictionary
  6. marble: Vocabulary.com
  7. Marble, marble: Wordnik
  8. marble: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Marble, marble: Wiktionary
  10. marble: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. marble: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. marble: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. marble: Dictionary.com
  14. marble: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. marble: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Marble (Casiopea album), Marble (Fanatic Crisis album), Marble (KDE), Marble (band), Marble (disambiguation), Marble (software), Marble (toy), Marble: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Marble: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. marble: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. marble: Rhymezone
  20. marble: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. marble: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. marble: FreeDictionary.org
  23. marble: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. marble: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. marble: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. marble: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Marble: art glossary
  3. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Marble (toy), marble: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. marble: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. marble: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Marble: Easton Bible
  2. Marble: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. marble: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  4. marble: Dictionary of Geology

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. marble, marble, marble: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. marble: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. marble: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  3. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See marbled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable, petrology) A metamorphic rock of crystalline limestone.
noun:  (countable, games) A small ball used in games, originally of marble but now usually of glass or ceramic.
noun:  (in the plural, archaeology) Statues made from marble.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (something to have) the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example by mixing viscous ingredients incompletely, or by applying paint or other colorants unevenly.
verb:  (intransitive) To get or have the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example due to the incomplete mixing of viscous ingredients, or the uneven application of paint or other colorants.
verb:  (transitive) To cause meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb, to be interlaced with fat so that its appearance resembles that of marble.
verb:  (intransitive, of meat, especially beef) To become interlaced with fat; (of fat) to interlace through meat.
verb:  (by extension, figurative) To lace or be laced throughout.
adjective:  Made of, or resembling, marble.
adjective:  (figurative) Cold; hard; unfeeling.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A statutory town in Gunnison County, Colorado.

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