[バベルのとう, baberu notou] (n) Tower of Babel; (P) [Add to Longdo]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Babel \Ba"bel\, n. [Heb. B[=a]bel, 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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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Babel
n 1: (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants
(probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to
heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they
could no longer understand one another [syn: {Tower of
Babel}, {Babel}]
2: a confusion of voices and other sounds
From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]:
Babel /babɛl/
Babel; Babylon
From Portuguese-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-por-eng]:
Babel
Babel; Babylon
From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]:
Babel /babəl/
1. Babel; Babylon
2. Babel; Babylon
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