Meaning

Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk..

Definitions by Sense

1. Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.
2. The sound of talking.
3. The vocalisations of a Eurasian magpie, Pica pica.
4. The vocalisations of various birds or other animals.
5. An intermittent noise, as from vibration.
6. (uncountable) In national security, the degree of communication between suspect groups and individuals, used to gauge the degree of expected terrorist activity.
7. (uncountable) The situation where a drill or similar tool vibrates and tears the material rather than cutting it cleanly.
8. (intransitive) To talk idly.

Example Sentences

Although hardly coming under my theme, I cannot omit this: "Against a woman's chatter: Taste at night fasting a root of radish, that day the chatter cannot harm thee."

The hare cried and complained of the terrible February cold and the disgusting chatter of the owls[.]

At dawn and at sunset the howler monkeys screamed together and the parakeets broke into shrill chatter, but during the hot hours of the day only the full drone of insects, like the beat of a distant surf, filled the ear, while nothing moved amid the solemn vistas of stupendous trunks, fading away into the darkness which held us in.

The wind rose as the earth darkened, so that fading chatters of woodland animals were countered by the strengthening sounds of waving trees […]

Proper brake adjustment will help to reduce the chatter.

The NSA is concerned about increased chatter between known terror groups.

They knitted and chattered the whole time.

That teacheth trickes eleuen and twentie long, / To tame a ſhrew, and charme her chattering tongue.

Word Forms

• chatters
• chattering
• chattered

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When Should You Use Chatter?

Use chatter when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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