BABELS

Noun

Babels

plural of Babel

Anagrams

• Labbes

Noun

babels

plural of babel

Anagrams

• Labbes

Source: Wiktionary


BABEL

Ba"bel, n. Etym: [Heb. Babel, 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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