ALL meanings of babel
Ba·bel
B b - singular noun babel If there is a babel of voices, you hear a lot of people talking at the same time, so that you cannot understand what they are saying. 3
- noun babel a tower presumptuously intended to reach from earth to heaven, the building of which was frustrated when Jehovah confused the language of the builders (Genesis 11:1–9) 3
- noun babel the city, probably Babylon, in which this tower was supposedly built 3
- noun babel a confusion of noises or voices 3
- noun babel a scene of noise and confusion 3
- noun babel Issak Emmanuilovich (iˈsak imənuˈiləvitʃ) 1894–1941, Russian short-story writer, whose works include Stories from Odessa (1924) and Red Cavalry (1926) 3
- noun babel a city in Shinar in which Noah's descendants tried to build a very high tower to reach heaven and were prevented by God from doing so by a confusion of tongues: Gen. 11:1-9 3
- noun babel an impracticable scheme 3
- noun babel any confusion of voices or sounds; tumult 3
- noun babel a place of such confusion 3
- noun babel Iˈsaak (Emmanuilovich) (iˈsɑk ) ; ēsäkˈ) 1894-1940; Russ. writer 3
- noun babel an ancient city in the land of Shinar in which the building of a tower (Tower of Babel) intended to reach heaven was begun and the confusion of the language of the people took place. Gen. 11:4–9. 1
- noun babel (usually lowercase) a confused mixture of sounds or voices. 1
- noun babel (usually lowercase) a scene of noise and confusion. 1
- noun babel A confused noise, typically that made by a number of voices. 1
- noun Definition of babel in Technology 1. A subset of ALGOL 60, with many ALGOL W extensions. 2. Mentioned in The Psychology of Computer Programming, G.M. Weinberg, Van Nostrand 1971, p.241. 3. A language based on higher-order functions and first-order logic. 1
- noun babel confused and noisy scene 1
- noun babel Alternative form of Babel. 0