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Definition of babel in English: babelnounˈbeɪb(ə)l 1A confused noise made by a number of voices. the babel of voices on the road Example sentencesExamples - Hence the babel of Scottish accents on the UK network.
- Larva echoes this multiplicity of tongues, a babel of aliens.
- The city was in an uproar and the god Enlil heard the clamor and he said to the god in the council, ‘The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by reason of the babel.’
- Cartoonists fall somewhere between these two: the commentless photographs which bear witness to events; and the babel arising from the pundits.
- Scottish accents could still be heard amid the Australian babel, but the immigrants were far outnumbered by the Australian-born claiming Scots origin.
- Her reverie was broken by a babel of voices, the approach of running feet, and suddenly her vision was filled with Theo's aghast features.
- Though the Liars' cuts are supremely inaccessible, moody pieces, their chaotic, indecipherable babel plays against Oneida's monolithic tower.
- The fair was like the crazy opposite of the academy, turning its demonstrations and its messages into a chaotic babel.
- In short, there was a babel of protest and lamentation.
- Confusionism: the chairman allows the discussion to decay into a babel of competing speeches and conversations, then announces that a vote has been taken.
- It would be a veritable babel here if it weren't so damn quiet!
- He wishes the tower to stand both for the babel of nonsense which comprised the Congressional impeachment hearings and for what he sees as the seven stages of ethical hell into which all participants have plunged.
- Said I, when the babel-like din could be tolerated no longer.
- Out of the babel of writers' voices offering their services, one dominated, that of Peter Nichols.
- They claim to have ‘the gift of tongues; ‘and to be able to comprehend the babel.’
- With what a babel of discordant voices does it [medicine] celebrate its two thousand years of experience!
- This man's message is this, that amidst the babel of voices in our world, there is another word-and the essence of wisdom is to listen to this word.
- With songs in Spanish, English, Mayan, and Zapotec, it reflects the babel of voices that is our ever-expanding border region.
- And yet he has been rejected by a polyglot babel of 25 countries, and the will of the people of Italy has been frustrated.
- What is left is a babel of talk, of contrasting idiolects delineating the diverse characters, again well illustrated by Miola.
- Worse, the babel of messages from amateurs produced conflicting news about whether the ship was safe.
Synonyms clamour, din, racket, confused noise, tumult, uproar, hubbub babble, babbling, shouting, yelling, screaming commotion, chaos, bedlam, pandemonium, confusion Scottish & Northern English stramash informal hullabaloo British informal row, car crash rare charivari - 1.1 A confused situation.
the potential for confusion in this babel of textual formats is enormous Example sentencesExamples - Even though Europe is a babel, while the United States is all one nation, under God and indivisible, for some reason - at least as far as our male golfers and basketball heroes are concerned - we don't play very well together.
- Where would all those self-interested snouts turn for sustenance if shoo'd away from the trough of taxpayer monies that currently funds the babel of ethnic councils and advocates of cultural separatism.
- If we turn to various explanations of how these incidents come about and how to prevent them, we face a babel of opinions.
- There's just one little problem - the babel of compression types, encryption methods, data formats, transmission techniques and other standards that make it difficult to get everything communicating properly with everything else.
- Each of them a million cities, a babel of troubles, secrets, losses.
- I argue that to accept the babel of multiple and incommensurable publics is to surrender to the Babylon of an alienating governance such as the Jews fell under during their Babylonian captivity.
Origin Early 16th century: from Babel (see Tower of Babel), where, according to the biblical story, God made the builders all speak different languages. Definition of babel in US English: babelnoun 1A confused noise made by a number of voices. the babel of voices on the road Example sentencesExamples - Said I, when the babel-like din could be tolerated no longer.
- He wishes the tower to stand both for the babel of nonsense which comprised the Congressional impeachment hearings and for what he sees as the seven stages of ethical hell into which all participants have plunged.
- It would be a veritable babel here if it weren't so damn quiet!
- The fair was like the crazy opposite of the academy, turning its demonstrations and its messages into a chaotic babel.
- Her reverie was broken by a babel of voices, the approach of running feet, and suddenly her vision was filled with Theo's aghast features.
- Out of the babel of writers' voices offering their services, one dominated, that of Peter Nichols.
- The city was in an uproar and the god Enlil heard the clamor and he said to the god in the council, ‘The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by reason of the babel.’
- They claim to have ‘the gift of tongues; ‘and to be able to comprehend the babel.’
- Worse, the babel of messages from amateurs produced conflicting news about whether the ship was safe.
- Larva echoes this multiplicity of tongues, a babel of aliens.
- With what a babel of discordant voices does it [medicine] celebrate its two thousand years of experience!
- In short, there was a babel of protest and lamentation.
- Hence the babel of Scottish accents on the UK network.
- Scottish accents could still be heard amid the Australian babel, but the immigrants were far outnumbered by the Australian-born claiming Scots origin.
- Confusionism: the chairman allows the discussion to decay into a babel of competing speeches and conversations, then announces that a vote has been taken.
- This man's message is this, that amidst the babel of voices in our world, there is another word-and the essence of wisdom is to listen to this word.
- With songs in Spanish, English, Mayan, and Zapotec, it reflects the babel of voices that is our ever-expanding border region.
- What is left is a babel of talk, of contrasting idiolects delineating the diverse characters, again well illustrated by Miola.
- Cartoonists fall somewhere between these two: the commentless photographs which bear witness to events; and the babel arising from the pundits.
- Though the Liars' cuts are supremely inaccessible, moody pieces, their chaotic, indecipherable babel plays against Oneida's monolithic tower.
- And yet he has been rejected by a polyglot babel of 25 countries, and the will of the people of Italy has been frustrated.
Synonyms clamour, din, racket, confused noise, tumult, uproar, hubbub - 1.1 A scene of noisy confusion.
Example sentencesExamples - I argue that to accept the babel of multiple and incommensurable publics is to surrender to the Babylon of an alienating governance such as the Jews fell under during their Babylonian captivity.
- Where would all those self-interested snouts turn for sustenance if shoo'd away from the trough of taxpayer monies that currently funds the babel of ethnic councils and advocates of cultural separatism.
- If we turn to various explanations of how these incidents come about and how to prevent them, we face a babel of opinions.
- Each of them a million cities, a babel of troubles, secrets, losses.
- Even though Europe is a babel, while the United States is all one nation, under God and indivisible, for some reason - at least as far as our male golfers and basketball heroes are concerned - we don't play very well together.
- There's just one little problem - the babel of compression types, encryption methods, data formats, transmission techniques and other standards that make it difficult to get everything communicating properly with everything else.
Origin Early 16th century: from Babel (see Tower of Babel), where, according to the biblical story, God made the builders all speak different languages. |