marble
noun/ˈmɑrbəl/
Frequency rank: #4,436 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
a small, hard glass or clay ball used as a toy.
Example sentence
Each child brought one colorful marble to play with in the backyard.
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