babel

Alternative form of Babel.

Pronunciation

Noun

  1. Alternative form of Babel.
  2. A confused noise made by a number of voices.
    • 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. - 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 11
    • 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. - 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados
    • […] 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. - 1958 February, Arthur F. Beckenham, “A Journey in the Belgian Congo”, in Railway Magazine, page 93

Forms

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