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I sort of forgot about 'Z Channel' after it went off the air in 1989, but once Jason Resnick of Focus Features made the suggestion, I became obsessed all over again. I still am. I'll probably be this way until I'm 80, babbling about 'Z Channel.'
Alexandra Cassavetes

Meaning of "babbling" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BABBLING

babbling  [ˈbæblɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BABBLING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Babbling is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BABBLING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

babbling

Babbling

Babbling is a stage in child development and a state in language acquisition, during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering sounds of language, but not yet producing any recognizable words. Babbling begins shortly after birth and progresses through several stages as the infant's repertoire expands and vocalizations become more speech-like. Infants begin to produce recognizable words usually around 12 months, though babbling may continue for some time afterward.

Definition of babbling in the English dictionary

The first definition of babbling in the dictionary is incoherent because foolish or confused. Other definition of babbling is making pre-speech sounds. Babbling is also making sounds, esp due to the movement of water over rocks.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BABBLING


bling
blɪŋ
bling-bling
ˈblɪŋˌblɪŋ
bumbling
ˈbʌmblɪŋ
cabling
ˈkeɪblɪŋ
dabbling
ˈdæblɪŋ
doubling
ˈdʌblɪŋ
dribbling
ˈdrɪblɪŋ
gambling
ˈɡæmblɪŋ
humbling
ˈhʌmblɪŋ
mumbling
ˈmʌmblɪŋ
quibbling
ˈkwɪblɪŋ
rambling
ˈræmblɪŋ
rumbling
ˈrʌmblɪŋ
scrambling
ˈskræmblɪŋ
shambling
ˈʃæmblɪŋ
sibling
ˈsɪblɪŋ
timetabling
ˈtaɪmteɪblɪŋ
trembling
ˈtrɛmblɪŋ
troubling
ˈtrʌblɪŋ
warbling
ˈwɔːblɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BABBLING

babbelas
babbitry
babbitt
Babbitt metal
Babbittry
babblative
babble
babblement
babbler
babbling brook
babbly
babe
babe-in-a-cradle
babe-in-arms
Babel
babeldom
babelesque
babelish
babelism

WORDS THAT END LIKE BABBLING

bling bling
brambling
burbling
calling
disabling
dissembling
enabling
ennobling
grumbling
knee-trembling
lambling
marbling
pebbling
saibling
snobling
squabbling
stabling
stumbling
thumbling
trebling
untrembling

Synonyms and antonyms of babbling in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BABBLING»

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

Translation of «babbling» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BABBLING

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

Translator English - Chinese

咿呀学语
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

balbuceo
570 millions of speakers

English

babbling
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बड़बड़ा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الهذيان
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лепет
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

balbucio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অস্ফুটবাক্
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

babillage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Babbling
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Lallen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

喃語
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

나불
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Babbling
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bập bẹ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

babbling
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बडबड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gevezelik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

balbettio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

paplanina
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

лепет
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

murmur
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φλυαρία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

babbel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

babblande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

babling
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of babbling

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BABBLING»

The term «babbling» is quite widely used and occupies the 50.214 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BABBLING» OVER TIME

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

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5 QUOTES WITH «BABBLING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word babbling.
1
Alexandra Cassavetes
I sort of forgot about 'Z Channel' after it went off the air in 1989, but once Jason Resnick of Focus Features made the suggestion, I became obsessed all over again. I still am. I'll probably be this way until I'm 80, babbling about 'Z Channel.'
2
Dan Harmon
There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.
3
Sterling Knight
I don't usually get star struck, but I met Sir Paul McCartney randomly on Sunset Boulevard a few years ago, and I lost it! I couldn't breathe, I couldn't think, and I didn't know how to speak. It was crazy. He was nice enough to talk to my family and me for 10 minutes, but I remember babbling away about nonsense.
4
Mike Royko
It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
5
Johannes Tauler
Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BABBLING»

Discover the use of babbling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to babbling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Babbling: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Use in Literature BabblingStraight on towards us came the toiling ship, the dip of oars resonant in the hollow fog and a ripple babbling on her cutwater plainly discernible.ndash;Edwin L. Arnold in Gulliver of Mars.They babbled over ...
‎2008
2
Babbling Echoes: Soundings from Yesteryear
Harvey Dorfman was an educator, journalist, counselor, coach, and consultant. This volume is a collection of selected articles written by Dorfman over the span of four decades.
H. A. Dorfman, 2012
3
Language Development
In sum: Jakobson's discontinuity theory makes clear predictions: ( I) babbling is very varied, it consists of a random sample of sounds; (2) a silent period marks the border between babbling and language; and (3) the child looses phonetic ...
Peter Jordens, Josine A. Lalleman, 1988
4
The Psychology of Language: From Data to Theory
From about the age of 6 months to 10 months, before infants start speaking, they make speech- like sounds known as babbling, Babbling is clearly more language -like than other early vocalizations such as crying and cooing, and consists of ...
Trevor A. Harley, 2001
5
The Doofuzz Dudes and the Babbling Bottles
Roslyn J. Motter. It was an operatic triumph! There was chocolate and glass everywhere. Toby suppressed a giggle as he watched Lillee being dragged out of the vat of chocolate. She looked an absolute mess — speechless and songless.
Roslyn J. Motter, 2006
6
Communication Issues in Autism and Asperger Syndrome: Do We ...
At the age of about four months the baby starts babbling and producing different speech sounds. It is difficult to establish the purpose of babbling and its connection to word structure. It has been suggested that babbling reflects the biological ...
Olʹga Bogdashina, 2005
7
The Five Love Languages Gift Edition: How to Express ...
And that response is perfectly honest. He is content not to talk. He could drive from Chicago to Detroit and never say a word and be perfectly happy. On the other extreme is the “Babbling Brook.” For this personality, whatever enters into the eye ...
Gary D Chapman, 2009
8
Language Acquisition By Eye
Further, more than 75% of all marginal babbling was accompanied by rhythmic manual activity. Moreover, the co-occurrence between marginal babbling and rhythmic manual action most frequent during a specific and relatively brief period in ...
Charlene Chamberlain, Jill P. Morford, Rachel I. Mayberry, 1999
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Tough Talk, Cheap Talk, and Babbling: Government Unity, ...
Matthew Blake Fehrs. "Yet Anwar Sadat's words, while undoubtedly stressing his commitment to fighting, also imply that almost until at least the middle of 1972 he was still hoping that he might regain Arab territories without launching a war.
Matthew Blake Fehrs, 2008
10
The Signs of Language Revisited: An Anthology To Honor ...
respond to a baby's manual babbling with language, pure and simple. Here, adults either expand on the baby's fragmentary syllabic units and turn them into real signs that they then sign back to the baby, or they simply “play with” the infant's ...
Karen Emmorey, Harlan L. Lane, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BABBLING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term babbling is used in the context of the following news items.
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Family fun surrounds 'Minions'
So, the ogres began morphing into the Minions, pint-sized walking Twinkies with a penchant for babbling and blind devotion to the most ... «Wilkes Barre Times-Leader, Jul 15»
2
Giants lose sixth straight, make Americans not watching World Cup …
The Giants see him once every two months or something, but every time they see him, he's babbling about something irrelevant and asking for ... «McCovey Chronicles, Jul 15»
3
Sister sues city over APD killing of mentally ill veteran
... barefoot, shirtless and extremely thin, babbling and waving his arms while talking to himself, and had forwarded a report about him to APD's ... «Albuquerque Journal, Jul 15»
4
Aphrodisiac? Lily Allen chows down on oysters as she tours Galway
The chanteuse also shared images to her personal Instagram page; a scenic picture of the Connemara coastline and a video of the babbling ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
5
Rich Eisen Botches Andrew Quarless' Name During Segment on …
... himself as well as anyone, and certainly much better than a slew of other so-called expert football minds babbling nonsense every week. «Next Impulse Sports, Jul 15»
6
The Bible can teach us
So, after all this babbling, my only original comment is that I really do feel the Bible can guide and teach and support, but I am uncomfortable ... «Cadillac News, Jul 15»
7
Noah - Sivutie
It's as though Noah is playing piano near a babbling brook. Sure, the song would be just as beautiful without these adornments, but it wouldn't ... «The 405, Jul 15»
8
Former Burnley winger Steve Kindon reflects on his favourite Turf …
The memories spill out like a babbling Lake District stream in full spate, stories about Jimmy Greaves, George Best, Dave Wagstaffe, Martin ... «Lancashire Telegraph, Jul 15»
9
Book Excerpt: 'There's Something About You'
And the most annoying one, which usually set her babbling. 'So. Tell me about yourself.' Double-puke-gag-slide-under-the-table. What Trish ... «Huffington Post India, Jul 15»
10
The Trial review – Kafka made bland and babbling
Rory Kinnear in The Trial 'His face is a far more intriguing spectacle than the capers around him': Rory Kinnear with Sarah Crowden and ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»

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