Babe Definition

bāb
babes
noun
babes
A baby; an infant.
American Heritage
A baby; infant.
Webster's New World
An innocent or naive person.
American Heritage
A naive, gullible, or helpless person.
Webster's New World
A young woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
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Other Word Forms of Babe

Noun

Singular:
babe
Plural:
babes

Origin of Babe

  • 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 mutated from maban diminutive of mab ("son"), is probably rather a borrowing from the English.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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