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babel
/ˈbeɪ.bəl/
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What does babel mean?
noun
- Alternative form of Babel.
- A confused noise made by a number of voices.
- A confused mixture of sounds and voices, especially in different languages.
More meanings (3)
noun
- A place or scene of noise and confusion.
- A tall, looming structure.
proper noun
- The city and tower in the land of Shinar where the confusion of languages took place, according to the Bible.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈbeɪ.bəl/
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Men were shaking hands, it did not matter with whom, and bubbling over in a general incoherent babel.
The strain of the previous moments was relaxed immediately, the guests crowded around the pair, shaking hands--a babel of talk arose.
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Its frontispiece depicts the confusion of tongues at Babel, and, as a pendant to this, the pentecostal gift of tongues to the apostles.
It would seem that the fierce wars which had devastated the land had ceased prior to the beginning of the Tower of Babel.
Then all the scene was shaken with a babel of bird notes in which you could hear a cardinal whistling, and a blue finch piping.