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Ba·bel /ˈbebəl, ˈbæ-/
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Ba·bel n.
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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babel
n 1: a confusion of voices and other sounds
2: (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 [syn: Tower
of Babel]