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 Definitions of sable  [ˈseɪ bəl]  

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Definition of 'sable' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) sable
a dark-colored Eurasian marten, Martes zibellina, valued for its fur.

2.  sable
a North American marten,
Martes americana.

3.  sable
the fur of the sable.

4.  sable
the color black.

5.  sable
sables, black mourning garments.

6. (adj.) sable
of the color black.

7.  sable
made of sable fur.

8.  sable
very dark.

9. (n.) Sable
a cape on a small island at the SW tip of Nova Scotia, Canada: lighthouse.

10.  Sable
a cape at the S tip of Florida.


Definition of 'sable' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) sable, sable brush, sable's hair pencil
an artist's brush made of sable hairs

2. (noun) sable
the expensive dark brown fur of the marten

3. (noun) coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black
a very dark black

4. (noun) sable
a scarf (or trimming) made of sable

5. (adj) sable, Martes zibellina
marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur

6. (adj) sable
of a dark somewhat brownish black


Definition of 'sable' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) sable
of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry

2. (noun) sable
a carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur

3. (noun) sable
the fur of the sable

4. (noun) sable
a mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural

5. (noun) sable
the tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other

6. (verb) sable
to render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black


Translation of 'sable' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a kind of small animal found in Arctic regions, valued for its glossy fur.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: nerts Arabic flag Arabic: سَمّور سيبيريا Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: самур
Brazilian flag Brazilian: zibelina Czech flag Czech: sobol German flag German: der Zobel
Danish flag Danish: zobel Greek flag Greek: ζιμπελίνα (θηλαστικό με π Spanish flag Spanish: marta cebellina
Estonian flag Estonian: soobel Farsi flag Farsi: سمور Finnish flag Finnish: soopeli
French flag French: zibeline, martre Hebrew flag Hebrew: צוֹבֶל Hindi flag Hindi: सेबल, नेवले की जाति का एक
Croatian flag Croatian: samur, sobol Hungarian flag Hungarian: coboly Indonesian flag Indonesian: sebangsa musang
Icelandic flag Icelandic: safali Italian flag Italian: zibellino Japanese flag Japanese: 黒てん
Korean flag Korean: 흑담비 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: sabalas Latvian flag Latvian: sabulis
Malay flag Malay: sabel Dutch flag Dutch: sabeldier Norwegian flag Norwegian: sobel
Polish flag Polish: soból Persian flag Persian: سمور Pashto flag Pashto: يو ډول تور نسوارى رنګى ژو
Portuguese flag Portuguese: zibelina Romanian flag Romanian: zibe­lină Russian flag Russian: соболь
Slovak flag Slovak: soboľ Slovenian flag Slovenian: sobolj Serbian flag Serbian: samur
Swedish flag Swedish: sobel Thai flag Thai: สัตวสี่เท้าเลี้ยงลูกด้วยน Turkish flag Turkish: samur
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 黑貂 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: соболь Urdu flag Urdu: سمور
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: chồn zibêlin Chinese flag Chinese: 黑貂

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