Stable Meaning
/ˈsteɪ.bəl/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.
nounAll the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
Sentence Examples
The government of that country is now stable.
The government of the country is now stable.
The patient is now in stable condition after the successful surgery.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The doctor said the patient's condition is now ____ and not dangerous.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The horse was brought back to its ____ after a long morning of riding through the fields.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English stable, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stable, from Latin stab(u)lum.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 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:
"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."
— 2022 September 17, Thomas Kika, “WWE's Logan Paul Confronts Roman Reigns Amid Rumors of Major Title Bout”, in Newsweek:
"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."
— 2013, Noble Dee, Pimp: Reflection of My Life, page 167:
"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."
— 2013, Sandra F. Sperino, “Statutory Proximate Cause”, in Notre Dame Law Review, volume 88, number 3, page 1207:
"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."
— 2019 January, Leila McNeill, “Surely You’re a Creep, Mr. Feynman”, in The Baffler, number 43:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The doctor said the patient's condition is now ____ and not dangerous.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The horse was brought back to its ____ after a long morning of riding through the fields.