babe
/beɪb/
babe noun: a baby or infant; a very young human or animal.
Noun
babe (plural babes)
- A baby or infant; a very young human or animal.
- These events came to pass when he was but a babe.
- Though he possess sweet babes and loving wife,
A home of peace by loyal friendships cheered,
And love them more than death or happy life,1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
- An attractive person, especially a young woman.
- She's a real babe!
- During the 1980s, its vivid streetlife became a symbol of the “consumer socialism” that distinguished Hungary from other Eastern Bloc states, but Budapesters today are rather less enamoured of Váci: dressed-to-kill babes and their sugar daddies would rather pose in malls, and teenagers can find...2002, Charles Hebbert, Dan Richardson, The Rough Guide to Budapest, 2nd edition, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 73
- A darling (a term of endearment).
- Hey, babe, how's about you and me getting together?
- But, Babe, you don't have to meet 'em if you don't want to.1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post
- Synonyms:
- darling, dear, love, sweetheart
Proper noun capitalized: Babe
Babe
- A male given name or nickname
- Ruth was called “Babe” because of his youth (and baby face) when he signed with the Boston Red Sox in 1914 at age nineteen. He was also called “Bambino”—Italian for baby.2006, David C. King, Have Fun with American Heroes, Jossey-Bass, page 77
babe meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
babe in Tamil
- குழந்தை, வெகுளியான அல்லது அனுபவமற்ற நபர், கள்ளங்கபடற்றவர்
babe in Bengali
- বালিকা, খুকুমনি, তরূণী, বালক, সরল ব্যক্তি, সরল ত্ত নিষ্পাপ ব্যক্তি
babe in Malayalam
- പാവ, നിഷ്കപടൻ, കുട്ടി, കുഞ്ഞ്, ശിശു
babe in Kannada
- ಶಿಶು, ಹಸುಗೂಸು, ಕಂದ, ಕೈಗೂಸು, ಮಗು
Examples of babe in a sentence
- He always had a girl on his arm – he's a bit of a babe magnet.
- He was still a babe in arms when his father died overseas.
- The three bored, interchangeable booth babes winked and flirted vapidly; he had already forgotten their names.
Synonyms of babe
2 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- fox
- beautiful person
Forms of babe
| plural | babes |
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Origin of babe
From Middle English babe, a variant of earlier baban, perhaps from Old English *baba (“boy, child”), from Proto-West Germanic *babō, from Proto-Germanic *babô, reduplicated variant of *ba-, *bō- (“father, brother, close male relation”). cognates and related terms Related to Old Frisian bobba (“child”) (whence North Frisian babbe, babb, babe (“child”)), 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. Cognate also with English bub.
Use of the common noun babe as a (nick)name.
Words formed from babe
- babealicious
- babehood
- babe-in-a-cradle
- babe in arms
- babe in the wood
- babe in the woods
- babeish
- babelet
- babelike
- babe magnet
- babeship
- babish
- bikini babe
- Blair's babes
- booth babe
- Busby Babe
- Cumberbabe
- cyberbabe
- grandbabe
- hog-babe
- innocent as a newborn babe
- innocent as the babe unborn
- out of the mouths of babes
- out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
- pit babe
- scare-babe
- spokesbabe
- superbabe
Phrases with babe
Words that rhyme with babe
Questions about babe
- What does babe mean?
- Babe means a baby or infant; a very young human or animal.
- What is babe in Tamil?
- Babe in Tamil is குழந்தை, வெகுளியான அல்லது அனுபவமற்ற நபர், கள்ளங்கபடற்றவர். See Babe meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is babe?
- Babe can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce babe?
- Babe is pronounced /beɪb/.
- What is the plural of babe?
- The plural of babe is babes.
Words near babe in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: babe (page history and authors); Babe (page history and authors); babe (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); babe (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); babe (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); babe (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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