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pebble

Syllables: peb·ble/ˈpɛbəl/

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pebble noun: a small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.

pebble: a small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water
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Noun

pebble (countable and uncountable, plural pebbles)

  1. A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.
    • Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach
      Fillip the stars;c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge;
      As children gathering pebbles on the shore.1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 4
  2. A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
  3. A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.
  4. Transparent and colourless rock crystal.
    • Brazilian pebble
  5. A form of slow-burning gunpowder in large cubical grains.
  6. (slang) A small piece of crack cocaine.
    • You ain't got your Glock for the summer / And you ain't gonna pop for your gunner / You ain't in the whip with them pebbles (Nah) / You ain't on the strip with the rebels (Nah)2019 February 22, Giggs, “You Ain't…” (track 13), in Big Bad…, performed by Giggs
    Synonyms:
    peb

Verb

pebble (third-person singular simple present pebbles, present participle pebbling, simple past and past participle pebbled)

  1. (transitive) To pave with pebbles.
  2. (transitive) To deposit water droplets on the ice.
    • to pebble the ice between games
  3. (transitive) To give (leather) a rough appearance with small rounded prominences.
  4. (transitive) To place a pebble at (a vertex of a graph) according to certain rules, in a pebble game.

pebble meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

pebble in Hindi

stone
पत्थर patthar
rock fragment between 4 and 64 millimetres in diameter
कंकड़ kaṅkaṛ

pebble in Tamil

stone
கூழாங்கல் kūḻāṅkal

pebble in Urdu

چھرا, کنکر, روڑا

pebble in Bengali

নুড়ি, ছোট পাথর
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pebble in Malayalam
ചരൽക്കല്ല്, സ്ഫടികക്കല്ല്, ഇതുപയോഗിച്ചുണ്ടാക്കിയ ലെൻസ്, ഉണ്ടക്കല്ല്
pebble in Kannada
ಹರಳು, ಉರುಟುಕಲ್ಲು, ಸಮೆಕಲಕಲ್ಲು
pebble in Sanskrit
शर्कर śarkara
pebble in Nepali
ढुङ्गा ḍhuṅgā
pebble in Tagalog
mikbato
pebble in Arabic
حَصَاة ḥaṣāh
pebble in Indonesian
kerikil
pebble in Persian
سنگریزه sangrize, ریگ rig
pebble in Thai
กรวด grùat

Examples of pebble in a sentence

  • The pebbles went ploop and sunk to the bottom of the pond.
  • The stream flowed chatteringly over its bed of pebbles.
  • Punding may consist of activities such as collecting pebbles and lining them up as perfectly as possible, or disassembling doorknobs and putting them back together again.

All 32 example sentences with pebble

Synonyms of pebble

Forms of pebble

Noun
pluralpebbles
Verb
third-person singular presentpebbles
present participlepebbling
past participlepebbled
pastpebbled

Plural of pebble: pebbles

Origin of pebble

From Middle English pibel (also in pibleston), from Old English papolstān (“pebble-stone”), from Old English *papol, *pyppel, *pæbbel of unknown origin + Old English stān. Compare Albanian popël.

Words formed from pebble

Phrases with pebble

Words that rhyme with pebble

Questions about pebble

What does pebble mean?
Pebble means a small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.
What is pebble in Hindi?
Pebble in Hindi is पत्थर (patthar), कंकड़ (kaṅkaṛ). See Pebble meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is pebble?
Pebble can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce pebble?
Pebble is pronounced /ˈpɛbəl/ (UK).
What is the plural of pebble?
The plural of pebble is pebbles.

Words near pebble in the dictionary

  1. Peays
  2. peb
  3. peba
  4. Pebam
  5. pebas
  6. pebble
  7. pebble dash
  8. pebble dashed
  9. pebble dashes
  10. pebble dashing
  11. pebble game

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pebble (page history and authors); pebble (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Pebble (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pebble (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pebble (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); शर्कर (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); ढुङ्गा (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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