definition of the word babble

Confer Late German babbeln; Dutch babbelen; German bappeln, bappern; French babiller; Italian babbolare; probable origin, to keep saying ba, imitative of a child learning to talk; confer tower of Babel.

• IPA: /bæb.əl/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -æbəl

babble (uncountable)

1. Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.
   • "This is mere moral babble." Milton.
2. Inarticulate speech, such as was used at the building the tower of Babel; constant or confused murmur.

   Quotations

   • The babble of our young children. - Darwin.
   • The babble of the stream. - Tennyson.

3. A sound of or alike that which of flowing water.

• See also Wikisaurus:chatter

Definition from Wiktionary Content avaible with GNU Free Documentation License

---

2007-2012 © wordbyletter.com

---