Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Idle talk; senseless prate; unmeaning words.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Babble.

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  • noun obsolete babble

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Examples

  • Canons who give expression to this kind of babblement must expect what they get in the way of responses.

    Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899

  • Damned uncomfortable, too, but something told me grateful babblement wouldn't be in order, so I said as steadily as I could:

    Fiancée 2010

  • For a while a confused babblement arose from the ruins, and then the universal attention came back to Graham, perched high among the scaffolding.

    When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

  • But in Edinburgh all manner of loud bells join, or rather disjoin, in one swelling, brutal babblement of noise.

    Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

  • Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectations.

    December 7th, 2005 curufea 2005

  • A great babblement went across the open space — a babblement amidst which the gongs of the trams, ploughing their obstinate way through the mass, rose like red poppies amidst corn.

    The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

  • The house is plain, simple, and inconveniently small; but doors and walls are great luxuries, and you cannot imagine how pleasing the ways of a refined European household are after the eternal babblement and indecorum of the Japanese.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Damned uncomfortable, too, but something told me grateful babblement wouldn't be in order, so I said as steadily as I could:

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • Damned uncomfortable, too, but something told me grateful babblement wouldn't be in order, so I said as steadily as I could:

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • Just such babblement as that you can read in very learned books, and stuff like that has actually been taught in colleges, and nobody was sent to the lunatic asylum!

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

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  • The king said, “Let my subjects be mustered.”

    When no one showed up he was flustered

    He asked where the rabble went,

    Their smells and their babblement -

    The deaf wizard had turned them to mustard.

    May 29, 2019