Editing Stable (section)

== Other uses ==

The word ''stable'' is also used [[metonymy|metonymically]] to refer to the collection of horses that the building contains (for example, ''the college's stable includes a wide variety of breeds'') and even, by extension, [[metaphor]]ically to refer to a group of people—often (but not exclusively) athletes—trained, coached, supervised or managed by the same person or organisation. For example, art galleries typically refer to the artists they represent as their stable of artists. Analogously, car enthusiast magazines sometimes speak of collectible cars in this way, referring to the cars in a collector's stable.

Historically, the headquarters of a unit of [[cavalry]], not simply their horses' accommodation, was known as a "stable".