Babel

Definition of Babel

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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Aesopian language, Greek, argot, babble, bedlam, cacophony, cant, cipher, clamor, clash, code, confusion of tongues, cryptogram, double Dutch, garble, gibberish, gift of tongues, glossolalia, gobbledygook, harshness, hell, jangle, jar, jargon, jumble, mere noise, noise, pandemonium, racket, scramble, secret language, slang, static
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