Meaning Of The Word Babel

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babel
singular noun: If there is a babel of voices, you hear a lot of people talking at the same time, so that you cannot understand what they are saying.

Babel in American English
noun: an ancient city in the land of Shinar in which the building of a tower (Tower of Babel) intended to reach heaven was begun and the confusion of the language of the people took place. Gen. 11:4–9

Babel in American English 1
a city in Shinar in which Noah's descendants tried to build a very high tower to reach heaven and were prevented by God from doing so by a confusion of tongues: Gen. 11:1-9

Babel in American English 2
Iˈsaak (Emmanuilovich) (iˈsɑk ) 1894-1940; Russ. writer

Babel in British English 1
noun: a tower presumptuously intended to reach from earth to heaven, the building of which was frustrated when Jehovah confused the language of the builders (Genesis 11:1–9)

Babel in British English 2
noun: Issak Emmanuilovich (iˈsak imənuˈiləvitʃ ) 1894–1941, Russian short-story writer, whose works include Stories from Odessa (1924) and Red Cavalry (1926)

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