Home › Words › G › gablegable/ˈɡeɪbəl/gable means A surname.gable is pronounced /ˈɡeɪbəl/.Etymology* As an English surname, related to the noun gable. * As a German and Jewish surname, Americanized from Gabel. Also see Göbel and Goebel.nameA surname.nounThe triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches).e.g.“It was a queer sort of place—a gable-ended old house, one side palsied as it were, and leaning over sadly.” — 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 10:A cable.e.g.“First, striking sail, their tacklings then they loosed. And (with their gables stoop'd) their mast imposed Into the mast-room.” — 1577–83, George Chapman, The Works of George Chapman. Poems and minor translations.The Hymns of Homer: A Hymn to Apollo., Chatto and Windus 1875 https://archive.org/details/cu31924013128347/page/n367:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.cablet 68% match — A slender or small cable. vs gable →cable 64% match — A long object used to make a physical connection.; A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope. vs gable →cableway 63% match — A system of suspended cables from which cable cars are hung. vs gable →cablework 63% match — Cables generally; cabling. vs gable →cabling 61% match — A collection of cables. vs gable →cabled 61% match — Containing cables. vs gable →cablelike 60% match — Resembling or characteristic of a cable. vs gable →guyline 59% match — A rope or cable (a line) used to restrain the motion of something. As a cable used to prevent a mast from falling over. vs gable →