ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Babel

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Babel is a noun meaning A confused noise made by a number of voices.

Meaning

A confused noise made by a number of voices.

Example Sentences

I closed the door hurriedly on the babel and groped my way back to bed. At that moment bed seemed to be the one safe, comforting thing in my whole baffling environment.
He had already demanded the attention of the manager, Professor Bulge, Draycott and two underlings to his case and they were now involved in a babel of inutile reiteration.
[…] up in front the third and fourth class passengers were making a babel of noise as they either detrained or entrained together with their large families and strange collection of parcels, bundles and earthenware jars.

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