Usually means: Confusion of languages, biblical myth.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word tower of Babel:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. tower of babel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Tower of Babel, Tower of Babel: Merriam-Webster
  3. Babel, Tower of, Tower of Babel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Tower of Babel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Tower of Babel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tower of Babel, tower of Babel: Wiktionary
  7. Babel, Tower of: Dictionary.com
  8. The Tower of Babel (Bruegel), The Tower of Babel (Bruegels), The Tower of Babel (Brueghel), The Tower of Babel (Morris West novel), The Tower of Babel (West novel), The Tower of Babel, Tower of Babel (M. C. Escher), Tower of Babel (disambiguation), Tower of Babel, Tower of babel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Tower of babel: Rhymezone
  10. tower of babel: FreeDictionary.org
  11. tower of babel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. Tower of Babel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. tower of babel: Dictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tower of Babel: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Babel, tower of: Easton Bible
  2. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tower of Babel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Tower of Babel: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See tower_of_babels as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Tower of Babel)

noun:  (biblical) A tower erected at Babel by the descendants of Noah's son Ham to reach the sky, and whose completion God thwarted by making the workers speak different languages so that they were unable to understand one another.
noun:  (figuratively) A visionary and impractical plan.
noun:  (figuratively) A situation where the use of many different languages is a source of confusion.
noun:  Alternative spelling of tower of Babel [(figuratively) A situation where the use of many different languages is a source of confusion.]

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