'Babel' definitions:
Definition of 'Babel'
(from WordNet)
noun
(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 [syn: Tower of Babel, Babel]
noun
A confusion of voices and other sounds
Definition of 'Babel'
From: GCIDE
- Babel \Ba"bel\, n. [Heb. B[=a]bel, the name of the capital of Babylonia; in Genesis associated with the idea of "confusion."]
- 1. The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place. [1913 Webster]
- Therefore is the name of it called Babel. --Gen. xi. 9. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages. [1913 Webster]
- That babel of strange heathen languages. --Hammond. [1913 Webster]
- The grinding babel of the street. --R. L. Stevenson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'babel'
From: Hitchcock
- Babel, confusion; mixture
Synonyms of 'Babel'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Aesopian language,
- argot,
- babble,
- bedlam,
- cacophony,
- cant,
- cipher,
- clamor,
- clash,
- code,
- confusion of tongues,
- cryptogram,
- double Dutch,
- garble,
- gibberish,
- gift of tongues,
- glossolalia,
- gobbledygook,
- Greek,
- harshness,
- hell,
- jangle,
- jar,
- jargon,
- jumble,
- mere noise,
- noise,
- pandemonium,
- racket,
- scramble,
- secret language,
- slang,
- static