Noun A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses, a farm building for housing horses or other livestock, adjective_ resistant to change of position or condition, firm and dependable; subject to little fluctuation, not taking part readily in chemical change, verb_ shelter in a stable, transitive verb_ To put or keep in a stable, obsolete To fix; to establish, intransitive verb_ To dwell or lodge in a stable; to dwell in an inclosed place; to kennel.