Babar
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5.8
- proper noun
- Literature
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Babar
- Isn't there a children's book about an elephant named Babar?
I was saying it like David Spade's flight attendant character Babar.
- I was saying it like David Spade's flight attendant character Babar.
Examples
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Isn't there a children's book about an elephant named Babar?
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But I, I'd given him and his children a book that my father used to read to me called Babar the Elephant.
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Like you can say Babar, you can say Babar, in Boston say Baba and in Chicago they say BA Bear.
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- Hello, babar.
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The Story of Babar.
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Babar starts for home.
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Babar, the magnificent one.
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No, that's "Babar".
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The bed was a narrow child's bed, and the quilt on it was covered with faded figures of Babar.
Fiction book (2002) -
Her bedtime story to her children about an elephant inspired her husband, Jean, to create the beloved Babar the Elephant.
Synonyms
An imaginary elephant who becomes king and has adventures in children's books
Compounds
- Literature
An imaginary elephant who becomes king and has adventures in children's books
Surface Forms
Etymology
Babar was invented by the French author Jean de Brunhoff as the name of his friendly elephant hero in a famous children's book series. A helpful way to remember the name is to think of it as ba-ba, a 'baby-like' sound found in many languages, which fits this gentle, storybook elephant king.