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babe
(bāb)n.
1. A baby; an infant.
2. An innocent or naive person.
3.Slang A person considered to be sexually attractive.
4.Informal Sweetheart; dear. Used as a term of endearment.
[Middle English,perhaps imitative of the syllable "ba" frequent in infant babbling.]
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babe
(beɪb)n
1.a baby
2.informal a naive, gullible, or unsuspecting person (often in the phrasea babe in arms)
3.informal a young woman or man perceived as being sexually attractive
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babe
(beɪb)n.
1. a baby or small child.
2. an inexperienced or naive person.
3.Slang.
a.Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. a girl or woman.
b. (sometimes cap.) an affectionate or familiar term of address.
[1150–1200; Middle English; early Middle Englishbaban, probably orig. a nursery word]
usage:Definition4a is sometimes used with disparaging intent and perceived as insulting or demeaning to women. Definition4b is an affectionate term of address used by a man or woman to a sweetheart.
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Noun | 1. | ![]() blue baby - an infant born with a bluish color; usually has a defective heart cherub - a sweet innocent baby child,kid - a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age; "they had three children"; "they were able to send their kids to college" abandoned infant,foundling - a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown godchild - an infant who is sponsored by an adult (the godparent) at baptism test-tube baby - a baby conceived by fertilization that occurs outside the mother's body; the woman's ova are removed and mixed with sperm in a culture medium - if fertilization occurs the blastocyte is implanted in the woman's uterus war baby - conceived or born during war |
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babe
noun
1.(Informal)darling,love,baby,dear,dearest,honey,sweetheart,sweetie(informal)I'm sorry, babe. I didn't mean it.
2.(Informal)attractive young woman,siren,charmer,vamp(informal),femme fatale(French),temptress,Lorelei,seductress,CirceThis is not a case of idle babe worship among howling teens.
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babe
noun2.A guileless, unsophisticated person:
Idiom:babe in the woods.
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Translations
طِفل رَضيع
nemluvně
babyspædbarn
kornabarn
kūdikis
bērniņšmazulis
nemluvňa
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
babe
[ˈbeɪb]n(mainly US) (=honey)(term of address) →mapoule
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
babe
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
babe
[beɪb]n (old) →bimbo/a,bebèm inv (esp Am) (fam) (endearment) →piccolo/a,tesorobabe in arms →bimbo/a infasce (fig) →ingenuo/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
babe
(beib) noun1. a baby.a babe in arms (= a small baby not yet able to walk). baba طِفل رَضيع бебе bebê nemluvně das Baby baby; spædbarnβρέφος, πολύ μικρό παιδίbebé beebi نوزاد؛ کودک vauvapetit enfantתינוק बच्चा, शिशु जो अभी चल नहीं पाता beba kisbaba bayi kornabarnbambino 赤ん坊 갓난아기 kūdikis mazulis; bērniņš bayibabybaby,spedbarnniemowlę د غيږي ماشوم، اپلتېbebé sugar, bebeluşмладенец nemluvňa dete detence bebis, spädbarn ทารกbebek 嬰兒 немовля چھوٹا بچہ، طفل trẻ sơ sinh婴儿
2.seebaby.
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Thebabe threw back his head and roared at his prospects.
You come to murder thebabe that shall be born of me."
"BABE, not baby," corrected Rebecca from the circular.
And then he spied Kala, who, returning from a search for food with her youngbabe, was ignorant of the state of the mighty male's temper until suddenly the shrill warnings of her fellows caused her to scamper madly for safety.
But while she was in the mountains, she was hunted by some goat-herds and given up with herbabe to Lycaon.
A FAMISHING Wolf, passing the door of a cottage in the forest, heard a Mother say to herbabe:
After all, to have one burden the less on their shoulders may prove a relief, though there are still two children left--ababe at the breast and a little girl of six!
But a shepherd found thebabe and tended him, and delivered him to another shepherd who took him to his master, the King or Corinth.
Again, at the first instant of perceiving that thin visage, and the slight deformity of the figure, she pressed her infant to her bosom with so convulsive a force that the poorbabe uttered another cry of pain.
But it made the captain remember back across the years to his own girlbabe asleep on his arm.
Ever jealous for the race, they will legislate for thebabes of boys yet to be born; and for thebabes of girls, too, for they must be the mothers, wives, and sisters of these boys.
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