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Definition of 'prate'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) prate
to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble.

2. (v.t.) prate
to utter in empty or foolish talk.

3. (n.) prate
the act of prating.

4. prate
empty or foolish talk.

Etymology: (1375–1425; late ME < MD praeten. Cf. prattle)

Definition of 'prate'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) prate, prattle, idle talk, blether, chin music
idle or foolish and irrelevant talk

2. (verb) chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Definition of 'prate'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) prate
talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity

2. (verb) prate
to talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble

3. (verb) prate
to utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble

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