Definition of "babe" []

• A baby; an infant. (noun)
• An innocent or naive person. (noun)
• Slang A young woman. (noun)
• Informal Sweetheart; dear. Used as a term of endearment. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I. ii.118 (294,1) like a babe] That is a _weeping babe_."
• "Among those risking romantic rejection and public humiliation is a ski instructor keen to propose in salopettes, a sailor who uses the word "babe" as punctuation, and a civil servant who stores his engagement ring in a laundry tablet dispersal bag."
• "He watched the word babe hit her across the face like a hard slap, along with more he didn’t mean, but somehow couldn’t stop from saying."