1 [U] a type of hard stone that is usually white and often has coloured lines in it. It can be polished and is used in building and for making statues, etc:
a slab / block of marble * a marble floor / sculpture
2 [C] a small ball of coloured glass that children roll along the ground in a game
3 (marbles) [U] a game played with marbles:
Three boys were playing marbles.
4 (marbles) [pl.] (informal) a way of referring to sb's intelligence or mental ability:
He's losing his marbles (= he's not behaving in a sensible way).
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is marble a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, marble is tagged as noun.
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