Babel

Ba"bel

(), n. [Heb. Bbel, 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.
[1913 Webster]

Therefore is the name of it called Babel.

Gen. xi. 9.
[1913 Webster]

2. Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages.
[1913 Webster]

That babel of strange heathen languages.

Hammond.
[1913 Webster]

The grinding babel of the street

. R. L. Stevenson.
[1913 Webster]

New - Add Dictionary Search to Your Site

You can add a free dictionary search box to your own web site by copying and pasting the following HTML into one of your web pages:

<form action="http://www.freedict.co.uk/search.php" method="post">
 <p style="text-align: center; font-family: sans-serif;">
  <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.freedict.co.uk/"
     title="FreeDict free online dictionary">FreeDict</a>
  <input type="text" name="word" size="20" value="" />
  <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search Dictionary" />
 </p>
</form>

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

Thu 21st August 2008