Meaning of "babble" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BABBLE

Compare Dutch babbelen, Swedish babbla, French babiller to prattle, Latin babulus fool; probably all of imitative origin.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF BABBLE

babble  [ˈbæbəl]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BABBLE

Babble is a verb and can also act as 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.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb babble in English.

WHAT DOES BABBLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Babble

Babble is an online magazine and blog network targeting young, educated, urban parents. Their site operated a large network of parent blogs, employing many of the top bloggers on the subjects of parenting and child-raising. There is a Latina-version.

Definition of babble in the English dictionary

The first definition of babble in the dictionary is to utter in an incoherent or indistinct jumble. Other definition of babble is to talk foolishly, incessantly, or irrelevantly. Babble is also to disclose carelessly or impulsively.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BABBLE

PRESENT

Present

I babble

you babble

he/she/it babbles

we babble

you babble

they babble

Present continuous

I am babbling

you are babbling

he/she/it is babbling

we are babbling

you are babbling

they are babbling

Present perfect

I have babbled

you have babbled

he/she/it has babbled

we have babbled

you have babbled

they have babbled

Present perfect continuous

I have been babbling

you have been babbling

he/she/it has been babbling

we have been babbling

you have been babbling

they have been babbling

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I babbled

you babbled

he/she/it babbled

we babbled

you babbled

they babbled

Past continuous

I was babbling

you were babbling

he/she/it was babbling

we were babbling

you were babbling

they were babbling

Past perfect

I had babbled

you had babbled

he/she/it had babbled

we had babbled

you had babbled

they had babbled

Past perfect continuous

I had been babbling

you had been babbling

he/she/it had been babbling

we had been babbling

you had been babbling

they had been babbling

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will babble

you will babble

he/she/it will babble

we will babble

you will babble

they will babble

Future continuous

I will be babbling

you will be babbling

he/she/it will be babbling

we will be babbling

you will be babbling

they will be babbling

Future perfect

I will have babbled

you will have babbled

he/she/it will have babbled

we will have babbled

you will have babbled

they will have babbled

Future perfect continuous

I will have been babbling

you will have been babbling

he/she/it will have been babbling

we will have been babbling

you will have been babbling

they will have been babbling

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would babble

you would babble

he/she/it would babble

we would babble

you would babble

they would babble

Conditional continuous

I would be babbling

you would be babbling

he/she/it would be babbling

we would be babbling

you would be babbling

they would be babbling

Conditional perfect

I would have babble

you would have babble

he/she/it would have babble

we would have babble

you would have babble

they would have babble

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been babbling

you would have been babbling

he/she/it would have been babbling

we would have been babbling

you would have been babbling

they would have been babbling

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you babble
we let´s babble
you babble

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to babble

Past participle

babbled

Present Participle

babbling

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «BABBLE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «babble» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of babble

blabber · bubble · burble · chatter · drivel · earbash · gabble · gaggle · gibber · gibberish · gurgle · gush · jabber · lap · murmur · plash · prate · prattle · purl · ripple · splash · splutter · spout · twaddle · waffle

TRANSLATION OF BABBLE

Find out the translation of babble to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of babble from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «babble» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 含糊不清地说
• Translator English - Spanish: farfullar
• English: babble
• Translator English - Hindi: प्रलाप
• Translator English - Arabic: الثرثرة
• Translator English - Russian: лепет
• Translator English - Portuguese: falar de modo ininteligível
• Translator English - Bengali: কলধ্বনি
• Translator English - French: babiller
• Translator English - Malay: Babble
• Translator English - German: schwatzen
• Translator English - Japanese: ペチャクチャしゃべる
• Translator English - Korean: 횡설수설하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Babble
• Translator English - Vietnamese: tiếng thỏ thẻ
• Translator English - Tamil: எழுத்துக்கள்
• Translator English - Marathi: बडबड करणे
• Translator English - Turkish: boşboğazlık
• Translator English - Italian: blaterare
• Translator English - Polish: bełkot
• Translator English - Ukrainian: лепет
• Translator English - Romanian: trăncăneală
• Translator English - Greek: φλυαρία
• Translator English - Afrikaans: babbel
• Translator English - Swedish: babbel
• Translator English - Norwegian: babble

4 QUOTES WITH «BABBLE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word babble.

1

Rene Daumal

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.

2

Lance Morrow

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

3

Timothy Noah

Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery.

4

Genevieve Padalecki

I use circumlocution too often, and instead of getting my point across, I tend to babble.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BABBLE»

Discover the use of babble in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to babble and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Babble

Charles Saatchi - famously - refuses to be interviewed, but his 60+ essays in 'Babble' give a revealing insight into his forthright and often controversial views on a wide-ranging number of topics.

Charles Nathan Saatchi, 2013

Queen of Babble

Lizzie Nichols has a problem: she can't keep anything to herself.

Meg Cabot, 2009

Future Babble: Why Pundits Are Hedgehogs and Foxes Know Best

"Genuinely arresting . . . required reading for journalists, politicians, academics, and anyone who listens to them." -Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works We are awash in predictions.

Daniel Gardner, 2011

Indestructibles: Baby Babble

Shares illustrations of familiar foods, toys, and vehicles with readers.

Amy Pixton, 2012

Babble

Babble is a humorous novel-in-stories of a baby’s life. The stories are told from the baby’s point of view, transcribed by his father, yielding at least a slightly unreliable narrator.

Jonathan Baumbach, 2013

Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos

Tower of Babble reveals: • Why America can—and indeed must—go outside the UN to address the most serious threats to national security • How the UN jeopardizes the success of the war on terror—and how terrorist groups have actually ...

Dore Gold, 2004

Beyond the Babble: Leadership Communication that Drives Results

Praise for Beyond the Babble "Beyond the Babble is a significant contribution to the practice of employee communications ?very pragmatic and useful in crafting a communication program that really works."? —Harlan Teller, chief knowledge ...

Bob Matha, Macy Boehm, 2008

Queen of Babble Gets Hitched

Big Mouth, Big Heart, Big City .

Meg Cabot, 2009

Parent-Babble: How Parents Can Recover from Fifty Years of ...

DIV If you were to stack all the current parenting books on top of one another, the resulting pile would be nearly four times the height of the Freedom Tower.

John Rosemond, 2012

The Tower of Babble: Sins, Secrets and Successes Inside the CBC

This is the story of our most loved and reviled cultural institution during its most convulsive and far-reaching period of change.

Richard Stursberg, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BABBLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term babble is used in the context of the following news items.

Was Quicho's 'asinine babble' publishable?

I therefore ask Tan, should the Inquirer not have published Quicho's babble for being palpably asinine or “baseless” in light of hornbook law? «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»

The USWNT and Women's World Cup Have Evolved Eons From …

All of that babble seems like ancient history, but it's not. “We're talking about them as athletes, rather than some of the conversations we had in ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»

Russia Steps Up in U.S.-led Nuclear Talks with Iran

A past columnist with The Jewish Press and senior editor at Arutz 7, Ms. Julian has written for Babble.com, Chabad.org and other media outlets, ... «The Jewish Press, Jul 15»

A Few Good Moms: Can you handle the truth about summer camp?

... they seem to target them with all that kid-friendly stuff – sports and activities and fun locales and “make new friends but keep the old” babble. «Charlotte Observer, Jul 15»

Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel Cuts Cost of Milk

A past columnist with The Jewish Press and senior editor at Arutz 7, Ms. Julian has written for Babble.com, Chabad.org and other media outlets, ... «The Jewish Press, Jul 15»

F.A.O. Schwarz Closing Flagship July 15 on NYC's Fifth Avenue

A past columnist with The Jewish Press and senior editor at Arutz 7, Ms. Julian has written for Babble.com, Chabad.org and other media outlets, ... «The Jewish Press, Jul 15»

Is God judging America through a confusion of languages?

Their ability to collaborate together for evil purposes was broken by a babble of languages, and they soon scattered. Their plans, because they ... «RenewAmerica, Jul 15»

The Bible can teach us

... a gold necklace, I babble, love reading fantasy novels, believe in evolution, and my husband says I sometimes complain a bit ... so I am a big, ... «Cadillac News, Jul 15»

Film review: Minions - the yellow sidekicks get their own movie

With Coffin also back providing voices for the Minions — that weird Euro-babble they speak in — all this suggests it's about more than just ... «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»

Vietnamese doctor brings 'gift of hearing' to babies

V., another mother, was also confounded to see her 27-month-old baby fail to babble his first words. She was overwhelmed to learn that her ... «Tuoitrenews, Jul 15»