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   Babel , n. [Heb. Bābel, the name of the capital of Babylonia; in Genesis associated with the idea of “confusion.”]
    The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place.
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   Therefore is the name of it called Babel.
   Gen. xi. 9.
   
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   Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages.
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   That babel of strange heathen languages.
   Hammond.
   
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   The grinding babel of the street
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   R. L. Stevenson.
   
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