Usually means: Unintelligible, continuous chatter or talk.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word babble:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. babble: Merriam-Webster
  2. babble: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. babble: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. babble: Collins English Dictionary
  5. babble: Vocabulary.com
  6. Babble, babble: Wordnik
  7. babble: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. babble: Wiktionary
  9. -babble, babble: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. babble: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. babble: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Babble, babble: Dictionary.com
  13. babble: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. babble: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Babble (Coyne & Krause album), Babble (That Petrol Emotion album), Babble (band), Babble (company), Babble: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Babble: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. babble: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. babble: Rhymezone
  19. babble: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. babble: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. babble: FreeDictionary.org
  22. babble: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. babble: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. babble: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. -babble: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  26. babble: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  27. babble: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. babble: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  2. babble: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. babble: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. babble: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. babble: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See babbled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds
verb:  (intransitive) To talk incoherently; to utter meaningless words.
verb:  (intransitive) To talk too much; to chatter; to prattle.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a continuous murmuring noise, like shallow water running over stones.
verb:  (transitive) To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat words or sounds in a childish way without understanding.
verb:  (transitive) To reveal; to give away (a secret).
noun:  Idle talk; senseless prattle
noun:  Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.
noun:  A sound like that of water gently flowing around obstructions.

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