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Babel
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English
Etymology
Hebrew Babel, the name of the capital of Babylonia ; in Genesis associated with the idea of "confusion."]
Noun
- 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.
- Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; 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 .
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