stable

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 30.70 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.

   There were stalls for fourteen horses in the squire's stables.

2. noun All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
3. noun A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
4. noun An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.
5. noun A group of wrestlers who support each other within a wrestling storyline.
6. noun A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp.
7. noun A group of people who are looked after, mentored, considered or trained in one place or for a particular purpose or profession.
8. noun A coherent or consistent set of things (typically abstract) available or presented; array.

Similar words

stabile unreactive balanced firm sound steady lasting unchanging static unchangeable

Often followed by

and in than for at or to over equilibrium

Word family

stabilisation stabilise stabilised stabilises stabilising stability stabilization stabilize stabilized stabilizes