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[ bab -uh l ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈbæb əl / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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verb (used without object), bab·bled, bab·bling. to utter sounds or words imperfectly, indistinctly, or without meaning.
to talk idly, irrationally, excessively, or foolishly; chatter or prattle.
to make a continuous, murmuring sound.
SEE MORE SEE LESS verb (used with object), bab·bled, bab·bling. to utter in an incoherent, foolish, or meaningless fashion.
to reveal foolishly or thoughtlessly: to babble a secret.
noun inarticulate or imperfect speech.
foolish, meaningless, or incoherent speech; prattle.
a murmuring sound or a confusion of sounds.
babbling (def. 2).
Telecommunications . a confused mixture of extraneous sounds in a circuit, resulting from cross talk from other channels. Compare cross talk (def. 1).
SEE MORE SEE LESS Origin of babble First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English babelen; cognate with Old Norse babbla, Dutch babbelen, German pappelen
SYNONYMS FOR babble 2 chitchat, gabble, drivel, blather.
3 murmur, gurgle, burble.
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OTHER WORDS FROM babble outbabble, verb (used with object), out·bab·bled, out·bab·bling.
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Example sentences from the Web for babble In fact, I described them this way myself when I wrote about infant memory two years ago for Babble .
What Your Baby Remembers | Heather Turgeon| November 9, 2010| DAILY BEAST
Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, Washington Post, Salon, and Babble .
You're Pregnant, Have a Drink | Kate Tuttle| October 6, 2010| DAILY BEAST
Taffy Brodesser-Akner has written for the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and Babble , among other publications.
Who's Killing the Soaps? | Taffy Brodesser-Akner| December 14, 2009| DAILY BEAST
Thuds, shrieks, a babble of native words, and familiar English terms floated in and disturbed my rest.
A Woman's Impression of the Philippines | Mary H. (Mary Helen) Fee
If you are foolish enough to babble your own about the campus, on your head be it.
Marjorie Dean College Junior | Pauline Lester
Absorbed in antiquity, she ignores the babble of contemporaneous lovers.
A Cathedral Courtship | Kate Douglas Wiggin
There was a babble of talk, which ceased abruptly as Mr. Goddard entered.
The Search Party | G. A. Birmingham
My bed-room is convenient, and yet I am far from the babble of the household.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873. | Various
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British Dictionary definitions for babble verb to utter (words, sounds, etc) in an incoherent or indistinct jumble
(intr) to talk foolishly, incessantly, or irrelevantly
(tr) to disclose (secrets, confidences, etc) carelessly or impulsively
(intr) (of streams, birds, etc) to make a low murmuring or bubbling sound
noun incoherent or foolish speech; chatter
a murmuring or bubbling sound
Derived forms of babble babblement , noun babbling , noun , adjective Word Origin for babble C13: compare Dutch babbelen , Swedish babbla , French babiller to prattle, Latin babulus fool; probably all of imitative origin
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Words related to babble gibberish, jargon, drivel, burble, blubber, mumble, mutter, murmur, gab, ranting, jabber, blubbering, gabble, gossip, prattle, clamor, chatter, gushing, muttering, tattling