Babel: Definition and part of speech

Babel

  1. n. Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages.
  2. n. The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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