rubble
pronunciation
How to pronounce rubble in British English:
UK [ˈrʌbl]
How to pronounce rubble in American English:
US [ˈrʌbəl]
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- Noun:
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
Word Origin
- rubble
- rubble: [14] Old French robe (a relative of English rob) originally meant ‘loot, odds and ends stolen’ (its later sense ‘stolen clothes’ led on to English robe). From it was derived Anglo- Norman *robel ‘bits of broken stone’, which passed into English as rubble. The plural of *robel would have been *robeus, and this may have been the starting point for Anglo-Norman rubbous, which became English rubbish [14].=> rob, rubbish
- rubble (n.)
- "rough, irregular stones broken from larger masses," late 14c., robeyl, from Anglo-French *robel "bits of broken stone," probably related to rubbish [OED], but also possibly from Old French robe (see rob).
Example
- 1. Most streets in port-au-prince have been cleared of rubble .
- 2. Some neos are thought to be loosely packed piles of rubble .
- 3. Rubble and rubbish lie everywhere .
- 4. Nine other people were believed to be trapped in the rubble .
- 5. Emergency crews have reportedly pulled 100 people alive from the rubble .