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say it: SAY-buhl
sable is a noun and adjective meaning "an artist's brush made of sable hairs". It is pronounced /ˈseɪbəl/ — SAY-buhl. It carries 6 recorded senses.
an artist's brush made of sable hairs
the expensive dark brown fur of the marten
a very dark black
a scarf (or trimming) made of sable
marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
of a dark somewhat brownish black
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sable come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.