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# babble

«babble» in Mova's school dictionary: **hard to understand or silly: «She babbled about her…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (babble, babbles, babbled, babbling); noun (babble)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To talk quickly in a way that is hard to understand or silly: «She babbled about her holiday.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babble/#m1)

2) (of a baby) To make speech-like sounds before real words: «ba-ba-ba». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babble/#m2)

3) (of water) To make a soft, bubbling sound: «a babbling brook». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babble/#m3)

4) (noun) A noise of many voices at once, or silly talk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babble/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on growing up, babbling is a stage when babies practise sounds before talking. In stories and poems a «babbling brook» is a gentle stream. In the Bible the Tower of Babel story is often linked (by sound) to «babble». Phrases: «babble on», «a babble of voices», «babbling brook».

### examples

- The baby babbled happily in her cot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babble/#x1)
- Stop babbling and tell me what happened! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babble/#x2)
- We sat by a babbling brook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babble/#x3)
- A babble of voices filled the canteen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babble/#x4)
- He babbled on about his new game for ages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babble/#x5)
- Babies babble before they say their first word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babble/#x6)
- Then broke forth a rippling, laughing babble among the cone-shaped teepees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babble/#x7)

### note

Double b in the middle, one l: babble, babbled, babbling. Do not confuse with «bubble». Babbling is not rude for babies, but saying someone «babbles» can sound unkind.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «babble» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babble/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.