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1
a person who is just starting out in a field of activity
- although I worked with film for years, I'm just a babe as far as digital photography is concerned
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2
a recently born person
- a babe in arms, too young even to crawl
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3 slang
a lovely woman
- a celebrity magazine describing her as "a total babe"
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- beauty,
- beauty queen,
- cookie
- (or cooky),
- cutie
- (or cutey),
- dolly bird
- [British],
- enchantress,
- eyeful,
- fox,
- goddess,
- honey,
- knockout,
- queen,
- stunner
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4 slang
a physically attractive person
- an ad for a beach resort depicting tanned babes of both sexes
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