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saberlike

saberlike is the alternative spelling of sabrelike.

Meaning of sabrelike

Adjective

sabrelike (comparative more sabrelike, superlative most sabrelike)

  1. resembling a sabre
    • ABOUT 15 years ago I witnessed a 500-pound bluefin flown in from Montauk fetch $50,000 wholesale and watched it being cut with a lengthy sabrelike steel blade into tapering vertical quarters.2007 November 18, Mimi Sheraton, “Markets as Both Feast and Spectacle”, in New York Times

Forms of saberlike

comparativemore saberlike
superlativemost saberlike

Origin of saberlike

From saber + -like.

Questions about saberlike

What is saberlike the alternative spelling of?
Saberlike is the alternative spelling of sabrelike.

Words near saberlike in the dictionary

  1. sabered
  2. sabering
  3. saberleg
  4. saberlegs
  5. saberless
  6. saberlike
  7. sabermetric
  8. sabermetrically
  9. sabermetrician
  10. sabermetricians
  11. sabermetrics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saberlike (page history and authors); sabrelike (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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