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Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.
Harry Browne

Meaning of "blather" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BLATHER

From Old Norse blathra, from blathr nonsense.
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PRONUNCIATION OF BLATHER

blather  [ˈblæðə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BLATHER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Blather 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 blather in English.

WHAT DOES BLATHER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of blather in the English dictionary

The first definition of blather in the dictionary is to speak foolishly. Other definition of blather is foolish talk; nonsense. Blather is also a person who blathers.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BLATHER

PRESENT

Present
I blather
you blather
he/she/it blathers
we blather
you blather
they blather
Present continuous
I am blathering
you are blathering
he/she/it is blathering
we are blathering
you are blathering
they are blathering
Present perfect
I have blathered
you have blathered
he/she/it has blathered
we have blathered
you have blathered
they have blathered
Present perfect continuous
I have been blathering
you have been blathering
he/she/it has been blathering
we have been blathering
you have been blathering
they have been blathering
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 blathered
you blathered
he/she/it blathered
we blathered
you blathered
they blathered
Past continuous
I was blathering
you were blathering
he/she/it was blathering
we were blathering
you were blathering
they were blathering
Past perfect
I had blathered
you had blathered
he/she/it had blathered
we had blathered
you had blathered
they had blathered
Past perfect continuous
I had been blathering
you had been blathering
he/she/it had been blathering
we had been blathering
you had been blathering
they had been blathering
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will blather
you will blather
he/she/it will blather
we will blather
you will blather
they will blather
Future continuous
I will be blathering
you will be blathering
he/she/it will be blathering
we will be blathering
you will be blathering
they will be blathering
Future perfect
I will have blathered
you will have blathered
he/she/it will have blathered
we will have blathered
you will have blathered
they will have blathered
Future perfect continuous
I will have been blathering
you will have been blathering
he/she/it will have been blathering
we will have been blathering
you will have been blathering
they will have been blathering
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would blather
you would blather
he/she/it would blather
we would blather
you would blather
they would blather
Conditional continuous
I would be blathering
you would be blathering
he/she/it would be blathering
we would be blathering
you would be blathering
they would be blathering
Conditional perfect
I would have blather
you would have blather
he/she/it would have blather
we would have blather
you would have blather
they would have blather
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been blathering
you would have been blathering
he/she/it would have been blathering
we would have been blathering
you would have been blathering
they would have been blathering
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you blather
we let´s blather
you blather
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to blather
Past participle
blathered
Present Participle
blathering
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.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BLATHER


Cather
ˈkæðə
foregather
fɔːˈɡæðə
forgather
fɔːˈɡæðə
gather
ˈɡæðə
ingather
ɪnˈɡæðə
regather
riːˈɡæðə
slather
ˈslæðə
upgather
ʌpˈɡæðə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BLATHER

blastospore
blastula
blastulae
blastular
blastulation
blasty
blat
blatancy
blatant
blatantly
blate
blatherer
blatherskite
blatt
blatted
blatter
blatting
blaubok
blaud

WORDS THAT END LIKE BLATHER

all-weather
birds of a feather
breather
father
feather
godfather
grandfather
great-grandfather
heather
Holy Father
lather
leather
other
Our Father
patent leather
rather
stepfather
sunbather
tail feather
weather
white leather

Synonyms and antonyms of blather in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BLATHER»

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

Translation of «blather» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BLATHER

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

Translator English - Chinese

废话
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

blather
570 millions of speakers

English

blather
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बकवास
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الثرثار
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

болтовня
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tagarelice
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আবোল-তাবোল বলা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

blablabla
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Blather
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

quasseln
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

たわごと
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

허튼 소리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Blenggu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

blather
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உளறல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मूर्खपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

zırva
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ciarlare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

blather
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

балаканина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

trăncănesc
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

blather
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kletsen
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

blather
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

blather
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of blather

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BLATHER»

The term «blather» is regularly used and occupies the 100.041 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BLATHER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «blather» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «blather» 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 blather

EXAMPLES

QUOTES WITH «BLATHER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word blather.
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Harry Browne
Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLATHER»

Discover the use of blather in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to blather and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Blather
Often satirical, zany, sombre, or profound, this is not a book you sit and read in one afternoon for pleasure. (Unless you're slightly tetched in the head.) This is a book to study or burn.
Iyan Igma, Iyan Igma, 2009
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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
BLATELY, adj. bs. Rxb. (JAM.) Of rain:soft, gentle. BLATHE, see Blithe. BLATHER , sb.' Sc. Irel. Lakel. Yks. In comb. (1) Blather-bag, a 'windy,' foolish talker; (2) - heads, obs, ayearly festival formerly held at Bin ley; (3)-scalp,adullwitted person;  ...
Joseph Wright, 1905
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Pandora's young men
There is silence at Blather's end while Mr Smith listens with the official austerity of an Oriental. Walters is asking if Blathers is the old wind-bag who was kicked out of the Board of Trade. 'No,' replies Smith, in the voice of a specialist 'phoning a ...
Frederick Watson, 1920
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Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society
Blather, Cotton. A Flying Roll, Brought forth, to enter the House and Hand of the Thief. A Sermon. 8vo, pp. 34. Boston. Blather, Cotton. Testimony against Some evil Customs, in a Sermon. lOmo. Boston. Mather, Cotton. A New offer to the Lovers ...
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Blather, Blarney and Balderdash
On a quest to find his heroine, the bold hero stumbles across leprechauns. The setting is Irish and magical.
Patrick Rainville Dorn, 2003
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Buttering Parsnips, Twocking Chavs: The Secret Life Of The ...
blather. Dialect. words. Many of the oldest words in English may still be encountered today in the form of regional dialect terms. Some of these have their origins in the Old English of the Anglo-Saxon period (c.500 AD - c.1100), while others ...
Martin H Manser, 2008
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Pharmaceutical Patent Issues
Patent. blather. For all the current populist assaults on world trade deals, there would seem to be one aspect of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT) that has proved unobjectionable — the provisions bulking up patent protection ...
Orrin G. Hatch, 2000
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Cruel Beauty
Based on the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Cruel Beauty is a dazzling love story about our deepest desires and their power to change our destiny.
Rosamund Hodge, 2014
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Mastering Adobe InDesign
FIGURE 18.3 Tiling a document page , Blather blather, yada etc. Blather blather, a stuff etc. Blather yada, stuff etc, Blather yada yada stuff etc, blather, yada yada Blather blather, etc. Blather blather, a stuff etc. Blather yada yada stuff etc, blather  ...
Mike Cuenca, Renée LeWinter, 1999
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Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide: Discover your next great read
FLEMING, PETER LITERARYTRIVIA5: FIVE CURIOUS PSEUDONYMS Count O' Blather (>> Flann O'Brien) Comic writer Flann O'Brien produced a monthly magazine in the 1930s under the title Blather, which he claimed was the work ofone ...
Nick Rennison, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLATHER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term blather is used in the context of the following news items.
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How Trump is changing the GOP race
While most of Trump's statements fit the usual Fox News pattern of fact-starved, bigoted blather, he occasionally lays a foul smelling nugget of ... «Chron.com, Jul 15»
2
Kyrgios exits Wimbledon in fits and starts: DiManno
Continuing to blather: “Mate, Rafa (Nadal) and stuff play 30 seconds between points every time and all I'm doing is putting my sock back on. «OurWindsor.ca, Jul 15»
3
Risk of Global Market Meltdown Is Not 'Priced In,' Stupid!
Among all the mindless blather served up by the talking heads of bubblevision is the recurrent claim that “its all priced in.” That is, there is no ... «Newsmax, Jul 15»
4
Retirement Investors Leave 80 Percent on Table, John Bogle Says
Nobody gives you a bonus at the end of the year for attracting more money to your fund or for going on TV to blather about global politics. «Newsmax, Jul 15»
5
Hillary's Alinksy Ties
Well, it doesn't matter, any more than Obama's blather about hope and change and post-partisan moderation in 2008 mattered for his ... «FrontPage Magazine, Jul 15»
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Christie and his enablers jeopardize Liberty State Park | Editorial
It turns out that was just legislative blather. Sweeney and Speaker Vincent Prieto have surrendered, essentially, with another bill that does not ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»
7
Wrong Flag, Wrong Time, Wrong Moves
Expect lawsuits and blather nonstop. The burgeoning issue isn't the battle flag--I think that will be resolved judiciously by a whole nation largely ... «Maryville Daily Forum, Jul 15»
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Ken Fisher for Forbes - 'Bet On The Bulls, Not The Sheep'
So relax and enjoy it with stocks like these: Any generic negative blather that's supposedly bad for stocks is supposedly worse for Thailand's. «GuruFocus.com, Jul 15»
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Eduf**ktion: Out of the mouths of teens
... world in the self-sacrificing way it handled non-white people and tirelessly and lovingly protected blacks from themselves. I can blather on. «Thought Leader, Jul 15»
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Willes: Blatter blather tarnishes Women's World Cup trophy
On Sunday, just before Japan met the U.S. in the deciding match of their epic three-act rivalry, a story was making the rounds in which outgoing ... «The Province, Jul 15»

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