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Webster 1913 Edition

Babe

Babe

,
Noun.
[Cf. Ir.
bab
,
baban
, W.
baban
,
maban
.]
1.
An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.
2.
A doll for children.
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition

Babe

BABE

,
Noun.
[L. pupus,a word of endearment; pupa, little girl; whence pupillus, pupilla, pupil.]
An infant; a young child of either sex.

Definition 2024

Babe

Babe

See also: babe and babë

English

Proper noun

Babe

  1. A male given name

babe

babe

See also: Babe and babë

English

Noun

babe ‎(plural babes)

  1. (literary or poetic) A baby or infant; a very young human or animal.
    These events came to pass when he was but a babe.
  2. (slang) An attractive person, especially a young woman.
    She's a real babe!
  3. Darling (term of endearment).
    Hey, babe, how's about you and me getting together?

Quotations

  • For usage examples of this term, see Citations:babe.

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References

  1. ↑ Whitney, The Century dictionary and cylcopedia, babe.

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -abi

Verb

babe

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of babar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of babar
  3. third-person singular imperative of babar

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈba.be]

Noun

babe f pl

  1. plural of babă

Etymology

From Middle English babe, perhaps a variant of earlier baban or representing Old English *baba ‎(“boy, child”), from Proto-Germanic *babô, reduplicated variant of *ba-, *bō- ‎(“father, brother, close male relation”), related to Old Frisian bobba ‎(“child”), Swedish dialectal babbe ‎(“little boy”), Old High German Babo ‎(a male forename), see boy. Otherwise, origin obscure. Compare mama, dada, papa. Welsh baban ‎(“baby”), believed by Skeat to be a mutation of maban, a diminutive of mab ("son"), is probably rather a borrowing from English.[1] Cognate also with English bub.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /beɪb/, enPR: bāb
  • Rhymes: -eɪb

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