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.

American Heritage

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Other Word Forms of Babe

Singular:

babe

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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