Definitions for babble

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babble bab·ble

Spelling: [bab-uh l]

IPA: /ˈbæb əl/

Babble is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in babble (abbbel).

Definitions for babble

noun

1. inarticulate or imperfect speech.
2. foolish, meaningless, or incoherent speech; prattle.
3. a murmuring sound or a confusion of sounds.
4. babbling (def 2).
5. Telecommunications. a confused mixture of extraneous sounds in a circuit, resulting from cross talk from other channels. Compare cross talk (def 1).

verb (used with object)

1. to utter in an incoherent, foolish, or meaningless fashion.
2. to reveal foolishly or thoughtlessly:

verb (used without object)

1. to utter sounds or words imperfectly, indistinctly, or without meaning.
2. to talk idly, irrationally, excessively, or foolishly; chatter or prattle.
3. to make a continuous, murmuring sound.

Origin of babble

1200-50; Middle English babelen; cognate with Old Norse babbla, Dutch babbelen, German pappelen

Examples for babble

Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, Washington Post, Salon, and babble.

In fact, I described them this way myself when I wrote about infant memory two years ago for babble.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner has written for the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and babble, among other publications.

Donegal listened; and there was no babble of voices, and the rest of the orchestra was silent.

It must be awfully trying, though, not to be able to babble when you're pleased.

They followed their aunt to the waiting cars, where a babble of greetings met them.

For a time Renouard, silent, as if he had not heard a word of all that babble, did not stir.

Her words, too, were incoherent, as incoherent as the babble of the children themselves.

There was a babble of voices from the loudspeaker, punctuated by bursts of static.

Thence a babble of excited voices had reached him as he approached.