bauble

CEFRC2

[ˈbɔːbəɫ]

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.

Examples

  • She wore a bauble necklace to party.

  • She wore a colorful glass bauble on her necklace.

At a glance

Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
4

Also pronounced

  • /ˈbɔbəl/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Anything trivial and worthless.

  2. A cheap showy ornament or piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.

  3. A club or sceptre carried by a jester.

More examples

In context

  • The child played with a shiny bauble.

  • […] as to the bauble on which the chief proof rests, if she had earnestly desired it, I should have willingly given it to her, so much do I esteem and value her.

  • Have none before or after him staked all their treasure of life, as a savage does his land and possessions against a draught of the fair-skins’ fire-water, or a couple of bauble eyes?

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

She hung a shiny red blank on the Christmas tree for decoration.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English bable, babel, babull, babulle, from Old French babel, baubel (“trinket, child's toy”), most likely a reduplication of bel, ultimately from Latin bellus (“pretty”).