noun, verb
noun [sing.]
1 the sound of many people speaking at the same time:
a babble of voices
2 talking that is confused or silly and is difficult to understand:
I can't listen to his constant babble.
3 the sounds a baby makes before beginning to say actual words
seealsoPSYCHOBABBLE
Part of speech: verb
1 ~ (away / on) to talk in a quick and excited way that is difficult to understand:
[V] They were all babbling away in a foreign language. * I realized I was babbling like an idiot. [also Vspeech, VN]
2 [V] to make the sound of water flowing over rocks, like a stream:
a babbling brook
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for babble is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is babble a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, babble is tagged as verb.
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