noun [sing.,U]
1 the loud sound made by a lot of people talking at the same time:
It was difficult to hear what he was saying over the hubbub. * It was some time before the hubbub of laughter died down.
2 a situation in which there is a lot of noise, excitement and activity:
the hubbub of city life * He was left wondering what all the hubbub and expectancy had been about.
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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 hubbub is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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