5 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Babe \Babe\, n. [Cf. Ir. bab, baban, W. baban, maban.] [1913 Webster] 1. An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby. [1913 Webster] 2. A doll for children. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: babe n : a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk; "isn't she too young to have a baby?" [syn: {baby}, {infant}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 112 Moby Thesaurus words for "babe": angel, baby, baby bunting, baby-doll, bambino, bantling, broad, buttercup, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, child, child of nature, colleen, cutie, dame, damoiselle, damsel, darling, dear, deary, demoiselle, doll, dove, duck, duckling, dupe, filly, frail, gal, girl, girlie, heifer, hick, hon, honey, honey bunch, honey child, hoyden, incubator baby, infant, ingenue, innocent, jeune fille, jill, junior miss, lamb, lambkin, lass, lassie, little angel, little darling, little missy, lout, love, lover, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, mere child, mewling infant, miss, missy, neonate, newborn, newborn babe, noble savage, nursling, nymphet, oaf, papoose, pet, petkins, piece, precious, precious heart, preemie, premature baby, preschooler, puling infant, romp, rube, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, simple soul, skirt, slip, snookums, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, suckling, sugar, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetkins, sweets, teenybopper, toddler, tomato, tomboy, unsophisticate, virgin, weanling, wench, yearling, yokel, young creature, young thing From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Babe used of children generally (Matt. 11:25; 21:16; Luke 10:21; Rom. 2:20). It is used also of those who are weak in Christian faith and knowledge (1 Cor. 3:1; Heb. 5:13; 1 Pet. 2:2). In Isa. 3:4 the word "babes" refers to a succession of weak and wicked princes who reigned over Judah from the death of Josiah downward to the destruction of Jerusalem. From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: BABE or :BABY:, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion. There have been famous babes; for example, little Moses, from whose adventure in the bulrushes the Egyptian hierophants of seven centuries before doubtless derived their idle tale of the child Osiris being preserved on a floating lotus leaf. Ere babes were invented The girls were contended. Now man is tormented Until to buy babes he has squandered His money. And so I have pondered This thing, and thought may be 'T were better that Baby The First had been eagled or condored. Ro Amil
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