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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To talk idly and at length; chatter.
  2. v. To utter idly or to little purpose.
  3. n. Empty, foolish, or trivial talk; idle chatter.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To talk idly or boastfully; be loquacious; chatter; babble.
  2. To utter foolishly; chatter.
  3. n. Idle or childish talk; prattle; unmeaning loquacity; twaddle.
  4. n. Synonyms See prattle.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.
  2. v. To talk much and to little purpose; to chatter; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.
  2. v. To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble.
  3. n. Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
  2. n. idle or foolish and irrelevant talk

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English 15th century praten, from Middle Dutch, akin to Middle Low German pratten. Cognate with Swedish: prata. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English praten, from Middle Dutch prāten. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. babble
  1. chatter

hypernyms (5)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. cackle
  1. chatter
  1. yak
  1. yack
  1. yakety-yak

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Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. everyzing
  2. supersensitiveness
  3. semibarbarian
  4. pitifulness
  1. paltriness
  2. whodunit
  3. immateriality
  4. them
  1. rhodomontade
  2. entendre
  3. whod
  4. morning-coat
  1. collectivization
  2. pitman
  3. girl
  4. ebbery
  1. family
  2. queerness
  3. Kerry
  4. scorning
  1. counterplot
  2. read'
  3. kho'smi
  4. larn

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. babble
  2. jangle
  3. lab
  4. chatter
  5. gossip
  1. tittle-tattle
  2. twaddle
  3. blatter
  4. glaver
  5. prateful
  1. gab
  2. gabble
  3. babblement
  4. blate
  5. gabblement
  1. jabber
  2. prattle
  3. tattle
  4. tittle
  5. squirt
  1. talk
  2. tongue
  3. twattle
  4. balderdash
  5. cackle
  1. clap

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  • bilby "There's no man in the world
    More bound to's mother; yet here he lets me prate
    Like one i' the stocks."
    - William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'. Aug 29, 2009

  • carolinacc for he that prates his secrets,
    his heart stands on the outside

    The Revenger's Tragedy

    I wonder how that links to the quote above... Mar 23, 2009

  • bilby "This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just 'people of faith' but theocratic bullies. On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity."
    - Christopher Hitchens, 'Sarah Palin's War on Science', slate.com, 27 Oct 2008. Oct 30, 2008

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