Noun prate has 1 sense
  1. prate, prattle, idle talk, blether, chin music - idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
    --1 is a kind of yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter, cackle
    Derived form: verb prate1
,Verb prate has 1 sense
  1. chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble - speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
    --1 is one way to talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
    Derived forms: noun prater1, noun prate1
    Sample sentence:
    Sam and Sue prate
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