babel
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From the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel.
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babel (plural babels)
- A place or scene of noise and confusion.
- A confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages.
- That babel of strange heathen languages. - Henry Hammond.
- The grinding babel of the street - Robert Louis Stevenson.