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PRATE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk

Synonyms:

blether; chin music; idle talk; prate; prattle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("prate" is a kind of...):

cackle; chatter; yack; yak; yakety-yak (noisy talk)

Derivation:

prate (speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Synonyms:

blab; blabber; chatter; clack; gabble; gibber; maunder; palaver; piffle; prate; prattle; tattle; tittle-tattle; twaddle

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "prate" is one way to...):

mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "prate"):

babble; blather; blether; blither; smatter (to talk foolishly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue prate

Derivation:

prate (idle or foolish and irrelevant talk)

prater (an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker)

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