stable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪ.bəl/
ipa: [ˈsteɪ.bl̩]
rhymes: -eɪbəl
Forms: form: stables
Etymology: From Middle English stable, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stable, from Latin stab(u)lum.
Senses: examples: text: There were stalls for fourteen horses in the squire's stables.
text: We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
synonyms: horsebarn
coordinate_terms: byre
sty
glosses: A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.
glosses: All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
glosses: A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
synonyms: heya
glosses: An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.
examples: text: Paul, who signed with WWE in late June, appeared in a segment with Reigns' stable, the Bloodline, on Friday's episode of SmackDown after making comments earlier in the week regarding a potential match with the Tribal Chief.
ref: 2022 September 17, Thomas Kika, “WWE's Logan Paul Confronts Roman Reigns Amid Rumors of Major Title Bout”, in Newsweek:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A group of wrestlers who support each other within a wrestling storyline.
examples: text: My pimp vision enabled me to see that no hoe in my stable would be more worthy of the game than my young turnout red-bones.
ref: 2013, Noble Dee, Pimp: Reflection of My Life, page 167:
synonyms: string
glosses: A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp.
glosses: A group of people who are looked after, mentored, or trained in one place or for a particular purpose or profession.
examples: text: This Article argues that to date, the Supreme Court has drawn from a narrow stable of arguments to create a fairly standard, yet coarse, analysis to consider when to apply proximate cause to statutes.
ref: 2013, Sandra F. Sperino, “Statutory Proximate Cause”, in Notre Dame Law Review, volume 88, number 3, page 1207:
text: Built into the popular conception of the genius mythos in the sciences is something more than mere intelligence; the solitary free-thinking scientist is also expected to showcase a proclivity for eccentricity, rule breaking, and unconventional thinking and behavior. But when it comes to the abuse of scientific power for sexual predation, this stable of behaviors represents a slippery slope.
ref: 2019 January, Leila McNeill, “Surely You’re a Creep, Mr. Feynman”, in The Baffler, number 43:
glosses: A coherent or consistent set of things (typically abstract) available or presented; array.
Derived terms: Augean stables
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
stable girl
stablehand
stable lad
stablemate
stable-stand
stable vice