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Definition of Babel

Babel
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. Therefore is the name of it called Babel. --Gen. xi. 9. 2. Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages. That babel of strange heathen languages. --Hammond. The grinding babel of the street. --R. L. Stevenson.

Meaning of Babel from wikipedia

- Look up Babel or babel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Babel is a name used in the Hebrew Bible for the city of Babylon and may refer to: Babel (book)...
- The Tower of Babel is an origin myth and parable in the Book of Genesis meant to explain the existence of different languages and cultures. According...
- "The Library of Babel" (Spanish: La biblioteca de Babel) is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), conceiving...
- Babel is a 2006 psychological drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. The multi-narrative drama features...
- Babel fish may refer to: Babel fish, a fictional species of fish invented by Douglas Adams in 1978; see The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Babel Fish...
- Baptist Babel, Swiss sculptor Louis Babel, Oblate priest Meike Babel, German tennis champion Pierre-Edmé Babel (1720–1775), French engraver Ryan Babel (born...
- Library of Babel is a website created by Brooklyn author and coder Jonathan Basile, based on Jorge Luis Borges' short story "The Library of Babel" (1941)...
- The Tower of Babel in the Old Testament was a tower built by a united humanity in an attempt to reach the heavens. Tower of Babel may also refer to: The...
- Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution is a 2022 novel of speculative fiction by R. F. Kuang and...
- Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (13 July [O.S. 1 July] 1894 – 27 January 1940) was a Soviet writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best...