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.

5 letters in word "babel": A B B E L.

No anagrams for babel found in this word list.

Words found within babel:

ab abb abbe able ae al alb albe ale ba babe bael bal bale be bel blab blae bleb ea ebb el la lab lea

• Definitions:
• a confusion of voices and other sounds Tower of Babel: (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another
• Babel (??????; Bavel) is the name used in the Hebrew Bible for the city of Babylon (Akkadian Babilu), notable in Genesis as the location of the Tower of Babel.
• Babel is the original soundtrack album, on the Concord label, of the 2006 Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning film Babel starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Adriana Barraza, Rinko Kikuchi and Kôji Yakusho. ...
• Babel is an Iraqi newspaper which was under the direction of Uday Hussein.
• "Babel" is the fifth episode of the first season of .
• A city in Shinar [Babylonia], Babel [noun] [OW] is where the building of a Tower of Babel [CE] is held, in the biblical book of Genesis [Gen. 11:1-9 [BLB] ], to have been halted by the confusion of tongues.
• A tower mentioned in Genesis 11. The Bible describes how there was only one language used prior to construction of the tower. God was offended by the construction, and caused its builders to speak in different languages. ...
• Confounded by compounding too many things together, as the Yi-haic language.
• a tower built into heaven, the story of Babel comes from Genesis 11.1-9, "The whole earth was of one language, and of one speech ... Come, let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven ... And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built . ...

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