Definizione monolingua

babble

babble (third-person singular simple present babbles, present participle babbling, simple past and past participle babbled)

1. (intransitive) To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as, a child babbles.
2. (intransitive) To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.
3. (intransitive) To talk much; to chatter; to prate.
4. (intransitive) To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones.

   • In every babbling brook he finds a friend. - William Wordsworth.

   Hounds are said to babble, or to be babbling, when they are too noisy after having found a good scent.

5. (transitive) To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat, as words, in a childish way without understanding.

   • These words he used to babble in all companies. - John Arbuthnot.

6. (transitive) To disclose by too free talk, as a secret.

babble (uncountable)

1. Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.
   • ""This is mere moral babble."" John Milton.
2. Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.

   • The babble of our young children. - Darwin.
   • The babble of the stream. - Alfred Tennyson.

3. A sound of or alike that which of flowing water.

Definizione dizionario babble

	chiacchierare
	to talk much

	ciarlare
	to talk much

	cicalare
	to make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones.

balbettare

balbettio

ciancia

cianciare

farfugliare

mormorare

pettegolezzo

Altri significati:

(intransitive) To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.

Inarticulate speech, such as was used at the building the tower of Babel; constant or confused murmur.

Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.

(transitive) To disclose by too free talk, as a secret.

A sound of or alike that which of flowing water.

Something said, which noone can understand.

the sound of flowing water

To chatter thoughtlessly or indiscreetly.

idle talk

(intransitive) To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as, a child '''babbles''' .

(something) incomprehensible

(intransitive) To talk much; to chatter; to prate.

inarticulate speech

(intransitive) To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones.

(transitive) To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat, as words, in a childish way without understanding.

to utter words indistinctly