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- Dictionarysable/ˈseɪbl/
adjective
- 1. black: literary "the sable blackness of her hair"
noun
- 1. black. literary
- 2. a large African antelope with long curved horns, the male of which has a black coat and the female a russet coat, both having a white belly.
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noun. sa· ble ˈsā-bəl. plural sables. Synonyms of sable. 1. a. : the color black. b. : black clothing worn in mourning usually used in plural. 2. a or plural sable. (1) : a carnivorous mammal (Martes zibellina) of the weasel family that occurs chiefly in northern Asia. (2) : any of various animals related to the sable. b.
SABLE definition: 1. a small animal with thick, warm fur, or the fur of this animal used for making clothes and…. Learn more.
Sable definition: an Old World weasellike mammal, Mustela zibellina, of cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific Islands, valued for its dark brown fur.. See examples of SABLE used in a sentence.
sable noun [C or U] (ANIMAL) Add to word list. a small animal with thick, warm fur, or the fur of this animal used for making clothes and artists ' brushes: Pelts in demand were sable, mink, chinchilla and silver fox. a $150,000 sable coat.
1. Of a grayish yellowish brown. 2. Of the color black, as in heraldry or mourning. 3. Dark; somber. 4. Of the fur of the sable: a sable coat.
A sable is a small furry animal with valued fur. Sable is the fur of a sable. ...a full-length sable coat. More Synonyms of sable. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. © Steve Brigman, Shutterstock. sable in British English. (ˈseɪbəl ) noun Word forms: plural -bles or -ble. 1.
Sable is a fluffy little animal known for its silky dark brown fur. It’s native to Japan, Siberia, and other parts of northern Asia. You may meet up with a sable in a zoo or as somebody's expensive coat.
