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ба́ба — meaning in English

baba

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English meaning

  • broad adj Wide, either physically or in scope or range.
  • dame noun A title given to a woman who holds a high honour, equivalent to "Sir" for a man.
  • grandma noun An informal, affectionate word for grandmother.
  • grandmother noun The mother of one's mother or father.
  • grandparent noun The parent of one's mother or father; a grandmother or grandfather.
  • granny noun An informal, affectionate word for grandmother.
  • hen noun An adult female chicken, especially one kept for laying eggs.
  • jade noun A hard, typically green semiprecious stone often carved into jewelry and figurines.
  • sissy noun (informal, derogatory) A timid or cowardly person, especially a man or boy seen as insufficiently masculine.
  • wench noun An old-fashioned or humorous term for a young woman, sometimes used at Renaissance fairs or in historical fiction.
  • woman noun An adult female human.

Senses

ба́ба is used for these senses in English:

  • babka A Central and Eastern European coffee cake flavored with orange rind, rum, almonds, and raisins; or with some single flavoring, e.g. chocolate, lemon, etc.
  • broad (US, colloquial, slang, sometimes, dated) A woman or girl.
  • bundt cake A ring-shaped cake, of German origin, baked in a decorative, often fluted, mould.
  • dame (US, dated, informal, slightly, derogatory) A woman.
  • grandma (informal) Grandmother.
  • grandmother A mother of someone's parent.
  • grandparent The parent of someone's parent.
  • granny (colloquial) A grandmother.

broad — full definition

  1. adj Wide, either physically or in scope or range.
  2. adj General rather than detailed or specific.

dame — full definition

  1. noun A title given to a woman who holds a high honour, equivalent to "Sir" for a man.
  2. noun Informal, especially in older American slang: a woman.

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