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“Babble” or “Babel”

babble / babel are similar-sounding terms with different meanings (referred to as homophones). To better understand the differences, see below for definitions, pronunciation guides, and example sentences using each term.

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Definitions

What each term means

Same sound, different spellings and meanings, shown with a pronunciation guide for each term.

babble b·AE·b·ah·l

  • noungibberish resembling the sounds of a baby.
  • verbutter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way.
  • verbto talk foolishly.

babel b·AE·b·ah·l

  • nouna confusion of voices and other sounds.
Usage

Examples in context

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“babble”

  • …1953, characterizing modernist literature as babble and nonsense.
  • …Magnets Versus the Bubble of Babble in the UK, reportedly disliking…
  • (1993) ‘Stress, Babble, and the Utilization of the…

“babel”

  • Ryan Babel (born 1986)
  • …Santaolalla, responsible for Brokeback Mountain, Babel and The Motorcycle Diaries.
  • Babel is the highest-grossing film of…
  • …critical consensus states that "In Babel, there are no villains, only…
  • …by Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Babel, and Balzac.
  • …Cannes Film Festival screening of Babel, an act for which the…
  • Babel won the Golden Globe Award…
  • Weather (with Mark Sanders, Babel Label, 2017)
  • Babel was selected to compete for…
  • Babel received generally positive reviews.

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