marble

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

mar·ble [marble marbles marbled marbling] BrE [ˈmɑːbl] NAmE [ˈmɑːrbl] noun
1. uncountable a type of hard stone that is usually white and often has coloured lines in it. It can be polished and is used in building and for making statues, etc
•a slab/block of marble
•a marble floor/sculpture
2. countable a small ball of coloured glass that children roll along the ground in a game
3. marblesuncountable a game played with marbles
•Three boys were playing marbles.
4. marblesplural (informal)a way of referring to sb's intelligence or mental ability
•He's losing his marbles (= he's not behaving in a sensible way).

Word Origin:
Middle English: via Old French (variant of marbre), from Latin marmor, from Greek marmaros ‘shining stone’, associated with marmairein ‘to shine’.

Example Bank:
•a statue of Cupid carved in black marble
•sculptures in polished white marble