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Meaning of "babbitry" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BABBITRY

babbitry  [ˈbæbɪtrɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BABBITRY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Babbitry is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BABBITRY


asymmetry
æˈsɪmɪtrɪ
Babbittry
ˈbæbɪtrɪ
cabinetry
ˈkæbɪnɪtrɪ
cemetery
ˈsɛmɪtrɪ
circuitry
ˈsɜːkɪtrɪ
corsetry
ˈkɔːsɪtrɪ
cytometry
saɪˈtɒmɪtrɪ
geometry
dʒɪˈɒmɪtrɪ
hobbitry
ˈhɒbɪtrɪ
morphometry
mɔːˈfɒmɪtrɪ
nonarbitrary
ˌnɒnˈɑːbɪtrɪ
optometry
ɒpˈtɒmɪtrɪ
poetry
ˈpəʊɪtrɪ
rabbitry
ˈræbɪtrɪ
spectrometry
spɛkˈtrɒmɪtrɪ
stoichiometry
ˌstɔɪkɪˈɒmɪtrɪ
symmetry
ˈsɪmɪtrɪ
telemetry
tɪˈlɛmɪtrɪ
toiletry
ˈtɔɪlɪtrɪ
trigonometry
ˌtrɪɡəˈnɒmɪtrɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BABBITRY

baba
baba gannoujh
baba ghanoush
babaco
babacoote
babalas
Babar
babassu
Babbage
babbelas
babbitt
Babbitt metal
Babbittry
babblative
babble
babblement
babbler
babbling
babbling brook
babbly

WORDS THAT END LIKE BABBITRY

banditry
Guitry
hermitry
Jesuitry
microcircuitry
nitry
pulpitry
punditry
summitry
whodunitry
whodunnitry

Synonyms and antonyms of babbitry in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «babbitry» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BABBITRY

Find out the translation of babbitry to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of babbitry from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «babbitry» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

babbitry
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

babbitry
570 millions of speakers

English

babbitry
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

babbitry
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

babbitry
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

babbitry
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

babbitry
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কূপমণ্ডূকতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

babbitry
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Babbitry
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

babbitry
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

babbitry
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

babbitry
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Babbitry
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

babbitry
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

babbitry
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बॅब्रिट्री
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

babbitry
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

babbitry
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

babbitry
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

babbitry
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

babbitry
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

babbitry
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

babbitry
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

babbitry
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

babbitry
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of babbitry

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BABBITRY»

The term «babbitry» is barely ever used and occupies the 197.619 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of babbitry
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BABBITRY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «babbitry» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «babbitry» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about babbitry

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BABBITRY»

Discover the use of babbitry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to babbitry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Shadows of My Mind: Beauty Barbs Babbitry
Beauty - Barbs and Babbitry
Dolores Dougherty, Aram H. Takorian, Donna Dougherty Clowry, 2000
2
Unequal Justice : Lawyers and Social Change in Modern ...
Five. Babbitry. at. the. Bar. In the twenties corporate lawyers enjoyed unchallenged professional hegemony and unsurpassed opportunity to articulate their wishes as professional values. They spoke for the profession, asserted their clients' ...
Jerold S. Auerbach Wellesley College, 1976
3
Making Economic Sense
BABBITRY. AND. TAXES: A. PROFILE. IN. COURAGE? There. is no question that the media darling of the early 1988 presidential election season was former governor Bruce Babbitt of Arizona. As time neared for the Iowa caucuses, pundits for ...
Rothbard, Murray N.
4
Latvian-English Dictionary
... small peg, stake, destamais m. dibblé mietinu rei gis nm grillage of pegs mietne nf (of a 51ей 01 sleigh) Standard, 511и1 mietnieks nm horse trader mietot vt set posts mietpilsonîba nf Philistinism, Babbitry mietpilsonîgi adv in a Philistiné way ...
‎2008
5
Small Stock Magazine: America's Most Read Rabbit Magazine
Jr Buck (6)— 1st 2d and 4th Bach- mann's Babbitry, 3d Edwin HcNoun, 5th Alice L Dutchcr. Jr Doe (14) — 1st and 3d Baoh- niann's Kabbitry, 2d Edwin McNoun, 4tli T A Klntt, 5th Alice L Dutcher. FRENCH ANGORA Sr Buck— 1st Mrs Raphael  ...
6
Babbitt
It tells the story of George Babbitt, a middle-aged family man who becomes disillusioned with both conformity and his belated attempts at rebellion.
Sinclair Lewis, 2013
7
Sovereign Idea: Essays on Canada as a Democratic Community
Babbitry wrapped in red, white, and blue is tawdry enough, but babbitry naked is not a pretty sight. Sir John A. Macdonald's Tory idea of nation-building was a businessman's idea, but it was national-capitalist in design. Laden with conservative ...
Reg Whitaker, 1992
8
Intellectuals Incorporated: Politics, Art, and Ideas Inside ...
the provincialism and materialism of the Babbitry on the other, existed in sufficient measure to allow the magazine to succeed. This may have been why Hadden seemed content with a modest circulation and actually sabotaged efforts to ...
Robert Vanderlan, 2011
9
Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American ...
CHAPTER o Babbitry and Meritocracy A Labor Question In the last two chapters, I have discussed the research university's permanent dependence on both business and humanism. These two ingredients have much in common, but they have ...
Christopher Newfield, 2003
10
The Reader's Digest
Europe's Babbitry Condensed from The Outlook and Independent (January i, '30) Nathaniel Peffer Former foreign correspondent; author of "The White Man's Dilemma" EUROPE'S BABBITRY EUROPE'S BABBITRY Let's Not JVear Them!
DeWitt Wallace, Lila Bell Acheson Wallace, 1929

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BABBITRY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term babbitry is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasures: The Dirty Art of Poetry, by …
... praised for Nox, a “dark meditation on death and memory”; Thomas Lynch, convicted of “midwest Babbitry”, is exonerated for his Irish poems. «Times Higher Education, Jun 14»
2
Richard Cohen: Obama's failure to act on Syria
That tornado of babbling Babbitry — surely this was a trap of some kind. Why was the United States allowing mass murder to continue — more ... «Washington Post, Feb 14»
3
The Revolt Against the Masses and the Roots of Modern Liberalism
The battle against Babbitry, carried out in the 1950s through the assault on mass culture, grew more intense. Liberals still searched for the ... «Daily Beast, Jan 14»
4
Pwog Fantasies of Power
This shadow cabinet, with its lush exfoliation of titles and subtitles, smacks of left Babbitry, not of revolutionary ardor—it is a mirror-image of the ... «CounterPunch, Apr 13»
5
A Different Time: When Detroit Believed It Was The Greatest City
In bursts of braggadocio, Babbitry and self-congratulation, Detroit in 1951 marveled at its past – especially the previous 50 years of auto-fueled ... «Deadline Detroit, Mar 13»
6
The guide 'new to Cleveland' is smart, elegant and self-published
Released last month, the book is a refreshing step away from civic Babbitry. It squares up to the vacant lots, foreclosures and poverty here, but ... «Plain Dealer, Jan 12»
7
Joseph Heller, who embodied masculinity in American postwar …
... a mature Heller would later describe as “hard-nosed, sexist attitudes … embodying … implicit assessments of materialism, wealth, Babbitry, ... «Tablet Magazine, Nov 11»
8
Great city forced to read swill
The free-spirited city-state that has always laughed at American Babbitry and fought for social justice? We deserve better than this. «Salon, Oct 11»
9
The Independent-Film Character
She was a grieving artist who reached out to a lonely man with dwarfism in "The Station Agent"; a model of Babbitry in "Far From Heaven"; ... «Wall Street Journal, Aug 11»
10
Group Think
... or even the borderline theology (of some) and borderline Babbitry (of others) involved in promising audiences easy, happy, profitable ideas. «New York Magazine, Mar 11»

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