单词 | babeldom |
释义 | Babeldomn. A state of things compared to that at Babel (see Babel n.); esp. noisy disorder; (also) confusion of languages. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [noun] > a scene or place of confusion > noisy dibble-dabblea1563 coil1582 Babeldom1824 1824 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1990) IV. 5126 The bold assertion that a Part was the Whole—the Church—& all other Christians Babeldoms, to be blown up toward their Master. 1844 Columbian Mag. June 283/2 One who has lived in the brick Babeldom of a great city..has no call to know anything about cattle, sheep and swine. 1882 Contemp. Rev. Nov. 681 Reverence has few dedicated Temples in the Babeldom of nineteenth century England. 1927 R. Wright Hawkers & Walkers in Early Amer. xv. 234 The streets at times were a veritable Babeldom in their confusion of tongues. 1955 Burlington Mag. Mar. 87/1 The present organizers of the Biennale are delighted by their Babeldom and have no real desire to educate the public or to assist artists to see their way more clearly. 2001 M. Meek Children's Lit. & Nat. Identity p. xii Many problems of babeldom remain; increase even, in a world where successful and fast communications are all-important. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1824 |
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