Usually means: Confusion of voices, languages; chaos.
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  1. Babel, babel: Merriam-Webster
  2. Babel, babel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Babel, babel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Babel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Babel, babel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Babel, babel: Wordnik
  7. babel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Babel, babel: Wiktionary
  9. Babel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Babel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Babel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Babel, babel: Dictionary.com
  13. Babel: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  15. Babel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. babel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. babel: Rhymezone
  18. Babel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. babel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Babel: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  21. Babel: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. babel: FreeDictionary.org
  23. babel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Babel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. babel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. Babel: Merriam-Webster

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  2. babel: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
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  3. Babel: Encyclopedia

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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Acronym Finder
  2. babel: A Word A Day

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Babel: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. babel: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Babel)

noun:  (biblical) The city and tower in the land of Shinar where the confusion of languages took place, according to the Bible.
noun:  A confused mixture of sounds and voices, especially in different languages.
noun:  A place or scene of noise and confusion.
noun:  A tall, looming structure.
noun:  Alternative form of Babel [(biblical) The city and tower in the land of Shinar where the confusion of languages took place, according to the Bible.]

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