Thesaurus: babel

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1. n. The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place.
2. n. Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages.
3. n. a confusion of voices and other sounds
4. 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.
5. n:100 n. a confusion of voices and other sounds