noun
- Plural of babbling; continuous, rapid, and often unclear speech or sounds.
- The sounds made by a baby or young child who is learning to speak.
- The gentle, continuous sound of flowing water, such as a stream or brook.
Usage: Usually uncountable when referring to the act or sound itself; countable when referring to multiple instances or utterances.
Usage: Often poetic or literary.
Examples
- The baby's babblings filled the room with delightful sounds.
- We could hear the babblings of the creek as we walked through the forest.
- His nervous babblings during the interview made a poor impression.
- The babblings of the toddler were her first attempts at communication.
- The stream's gentle babblings created a soothing background noise.
- She dismissed his excited babblings as mere nonsense.