Complete Definition of "babel"

see|Babel

English
Alternative spellings
Babel

Pronunciation
Homonyms
babble

Etymology
From the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel

Noun

  1. A place or scene of noise and confusion.
  2. A confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages.

#:Quotations
#:*That babel of strange heathen languages. - Hammond.
#:*The grinding babel of the street - R. L. Stevenson.

See also
Wiktionary:Babel|Wiktionary Babel for user pages

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