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B0003100 (bā′bəl, băb′əl) In the Bible, a city (now thought to be Babylon) in Shinar where God confounded a presumptuous attempt to build a tower into heaven by confusing the language of its builders into many mutually incomprehensible languages.

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also Ba·bel B0002600 (băb′əl, bā′bəl)n.1. A confusion of sounds or voices: passengers chattering in a babel of tongues at the international airport.2. A scene or situation of confusion: "a babel of commemorative ceremonies, statues, and tombs sponsored by competing cults of martyred revolutionaries" (Thomas L. Benjamin).

[After Babel.]

Babel

(ˈbeɪbəl) n1. (Bible) Old Testament a. Also called: Tower of 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)b. the city, probably Babylon, in which this tower was supposedly built2. (often not capital) a. a confusion of noises or voicesb. a scene of noise and confusion[from Hebrew Bābhél, from Akkadian Bāb-ilu, literally: gate of God]

Babel

(Russian ˈbabɪl) n (Biography) Issak Emmanuilovich (iˈsak imənuˈiləvitʃ) 1894–1941, Russian short-story writer, whose works include Stories from Odessa (1924) and Red Cavalry (1926)

Ba•bel

(ˈbeɪ bəl, ˈbæb əl)

n. 1. an ancient city in Shinar where people began building a tower (Tower of Babel) intended to reach heaven but were forced to abandon their work upon the confusion of their languages by God. Gen. 11:4–9. 2. (usu. l.c.) a confused mixture of sounds or voices. 3. (usu. l.c.) a scene of noise and confusion. [< Hebrew Bābhel Babylon] Ba•bel′ic (-ˈbɛl ɪk) adj.

Ba•bel

(ˈbæb əl)

n. Isaak Emmanuilovich, 1894–1941, Russian author.

Babel

a confused mixture of sounds, voices, or languages; a confused assembly. See also charivari, hubbub, pandemonium.Examples: babel of follies, 1529; of past idle objurgations, 1884; of sectaries, 1731; babel towers of chimney, 1848.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Babel - (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 anotherTower of BabelBook of Genesis, Genesis - the first book of the Old Testament: tells of Creation; Adam and Eve; the Fall of Man; Cain and Abel; Noah and the flood; God's covenant with Abraham; Abraham and Isaac; Jacob and Esau; Joseph and his brothersBabylon - the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia
	2.	babel - a confusion of voices and other soundsconfusion - an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended; "the confusion of tongues at the Tower of Babel"

babel

nounSounds or a sound, especially when loud, confused, or disagreeable:clamor, din, hubbub, hullabaloo, noise, pandemonium, racket, rumpus, tumult, uproar.

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BabelΒαβέλfrastuono

Babel

(bā`bəl) [Heb.,=confused], in the Bible, place where Noah's descendants (who spoke one language) tried to build a tower reaching up to heaven to make a name for themselves. For this presumption the speech of the builders was confused, thus ending the project. The story was perhaps originally an etiological tale explaining the diversity of languages and cultures, but, due to Israel's experience of the exile, now contains significant polemic against the presumption of Babylon, which is Babel in Hebrew.

Babel

where God confounded speech of mankind. [O.T.: Genesis 11:7–9]See: Confusion

Babel

¹ Issak Emmanuilovich 1894--1941, Russian short-story writer, whose works include Stories from Odessa(1924) and Red Cavalry (1926)

Babel

² Old Testamenta. 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--10) b. the city, probably Babylon, in which this tower was supposedly built

BABEL

(1)A subset of ALGOL 60, with many ALGOL W extensions.

["BABEL, A New Programming Language", R.S. Scowen, Natl PhysLab UK, Report CCU7, 1969].

BABEL

(2)Mentioned in The Psychology of Computer Programming,G.M. Weinberg, Van Nostrand 1971, p.241.

BABEL

(3)A language based on higher-order functions andfirst-order logic.

["Graph-Based Implementation of a Functional Logic Language",H. Kuchen et al, Proc ESOP 90, LNCS 432, Springer 1990,pp.271-290].

["Logic Programming with Functions and Predicates: TheLanguage BABEL", Moreno-Navarro et al, J Logic Prog 12(3) (Feb1992)].

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noun sounds or a sound, especially when loud, confused, or disagreeable

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noun (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven

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noun a confusion of voices and other sounds

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