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Babel

Babel Meaning & Definition
Babel Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Babel?

[n] (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another
[n] a confusion of voices and other sounds

Synonyms | Synonyms for Babel: Tower of Babel

Related Terms | Find terms related to Babel: Aesopian language | argot | babble | bedlam | cacophony | cant | cipher | clamor | clash | code | confusion of tongues | cryptogram | double Dutch | garble | gibberish | gift of tongues | glossolalia | gobbledygook | Greek | harshness | hell | jangle | jar | jargon | jumble | mere noise | noise | pandemonium | racket | scramble | secret language | slang | static

See Also | Babylon | confusion | ziggurat | zikkurat | zikurat

Babel In Webster's Dictionary

\Ba"bel\, n. [Heb. B[=a]bel, the name of the capital of Babylonia; in Genesis associated with the idea of ``confusion''] 1. The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place. Therefore is the name of it called Babel. --Gen. xi. 9. 2. Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages. That babel of strange heathen languages. --Hammond. The grinding babel of the street. --R. L. Stevenson.

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