stables
SaySTAY-buhlz/ˈsteɪ.bəlz/
- 1Plural of stable.
Heavy rain flooded the stables overnight, soaking every stall.
The estate's stables once housed more than thirty horses.
Note
A regular plural that often names one place: the stables can mean a single yard of buildings, and the verb follows either the establishment (is) or the buildings (are). The figurative stables pluralize just as easily: rival racing stables, sumo stables, wrestling stables in a storyline, and, in Scotland, sets of advocates. A pimp's stable is slang and best kept out of careful writing.
stables is a form of stable
stable, noun: A building or part of one set apart for housing, feeding, and sometimes training horses and similar hoofed animals. Full entry
- Forms
- stablestables plural
- Spelling
- stable → stables: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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