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Babbitt

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Babbitt
/bab"it/, n.
1. Irving, 1865-1933, U.S. educator and critic.
2. Milton Byron, born 1916, U.S. composer.
3. (italics) a novel (1922) by Sinclair Lewis.
4. (often l.c.) a self-satisfied person who conforms readily to conventional, middle-class ideas and ideals, esp. of business and material success; Philistine: from the main character in the novel by Sinclair Lewis.

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Universalium. 2010.

  
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