Babel


Also found in: Dictionary, Acronyms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
Graphic Thesaurus  🔍
Display ON
Animation ON
Legend
Synonym
Antonym
Related
  • noun

Synonyms for Babel

sounds or a sound, especially when loud, confused, or disagreeable

The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Synonyms for Babel

(Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven

a confusion of voices and other sounds

Related Words

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
References in periodicals archive ?
Parts Two and Three exceed expectations by providing a sustained and layered analysis of Babel as both a Jew and as a Soviet man participating in the creation of a new revolutionary culture.
But while poised to complete the transfer, Babel will not put pen to paper while there is still a chance Ajax could gazump the deal.
Babel has until 4pm on Thursday to respond to the charge.
Benitez suspended Babel and fined him a fortnight's wages but he insisted yesterday: "We have had conversations with him in the last couple of days and he knows that he can be a very good player for us.
Babel has already snubbed a straight swap with Sunderland and is turning his nose up at Birmingham, but he would be keen on a dream move to the Emirates.
I should get more playing time but after the first defeat of the season I was the only one who was singled out - and I lost my place," The Sun quoted Babel, as saying.
Dutch duo Babel and Zuiverloon grew up together, played in the same Holland Under-21s side and still speak over the phone on a daily basis.
Scott Greene contemporizes the Tower of Babel by turning it into Channel Babel an effective representation of our current stock-in-trade--information--and how gathering and sending data shape our lives.
Jerome Charyn Savage Shorthand: The Life and Death of Isaac Babel. Random House, 213 pages, $24.95
At one point in her masterful introduction to an edition of Isaac Babel's Complete Works, Cynthia Ozick expresses her regret that a "formal" Babel biography does not, alas, exist.
AMERICAN BABEL: ROGUE RADIO BROADCASTERS OF THE JAZZ AGE provides an important alternative history which refutes the popular notion that the quick commercialization of the airways was a coup from mercenary corporations.
Jerome Charyn looks for himself, though he never quite comes out and says so in SAVAGE SHORTHAND: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ISAAC BABEL (Random House, $24.95).