Babel
['bebl]
['beɪb(ə)l] or ['bebl]
Definition
(n.) The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place.
(n.) Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Confusion, disorder, tumult, pother, hurly-burly.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hubbub, confusion, clamor, jargon, din, discord, clang
ANT:Elocution, articulation, monotony, distinctness, consecutiveness, intonation,enunciation, unisonousness
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Definition
n. a lofty structure: a confused combination of sounds: a scene of confusion.—ns. Bā′beldom Bā′belism.
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Examples
- Discipline prevailed: in five minutes the confused throng was resolved into order, and comparative silence quelled the Babel clamour of tongues. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He also began to build the famous Tower of Babel, but circumstances over which he had no control put it out of his power to finish it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Slow: stagnating along, like shoreless Lake, yet with a noise like Niagara, like Babel and Bedlam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Fable and imagination have traced back the origin of freemasonry to the Roman Empire, to the Pharaohs, the Temple of Solomon, the Tower of Babel, and even to the building of Noah’s ark. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was the first linguistic concourse since Babel times. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Quickly the waitress returns bearing what is apparently a model of the Tower of Babel but what is really a pile of plates and flat tin dish-covers. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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