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   Babel (), n. [Heb. Bābel, 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.
   
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   Therefore is the name of it called Babel. Gen. xi. 9.
   
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   2. 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. R. L. Stevenson.
   
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