stable
A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.
Example
“There were stalls for fourteen horses in the squire's stables.”
Other meanings
All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.
Synonyms
- stalls
- horse barn
A kind of
- farm building
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "stabulum".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “stable” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.