babel

[ US /ˈbæbəɫ/ ]
[ UK /bˈe‍ɪbə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. a confusion of voices and other sounds
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How To Use babel In A Sentence

  • Shelomith was the daughter of Zerubbabel, a governor (c. 520 – 510 b.c.e.) of the postexilic province of Yehud. Shelomith 2: Bible.
  • The babel of languages used in science by the late 19th century was a good argument for a universal, ideally neutral language.
  • The Genesis legends of Cain and Nimrod, Babel and Sodom uniformly attribute impiety, pride, idolatry, luxury, crime and moral depravity to all cities and their founders, Sodom included.
  • However, being multi-vocular is not the same as being an archipelago of hermetically sealed cries; history provides the difference between Babel (the interminable inability to communicate one's suffering and one's love, faith, and hopes) and a possible common future. Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
  • Italian, German, and Swiss words, foreign phrases, and Spanish jargon, introduced by foreigners, so that a poor writer has plenty of elbow room in this Babelish language, which has since been taken in hand by Droll Stories — Volume 2
  • It would be a veritable babel here if it weren't so damn quiet!
  • The tricksy plots of Babel and 21 Grams felt more O. Henry than oh so profound to me. Michael Giltz: Cannes 2010 Day Six and Seven: Biutiful is Beautiful and Jia is Beautifuler
  • a babel of inhuman noises
  • babelike innocence and dependence
  • Babeldom, which he previewed as a work-in-progress at this year's Sci-Fi London festival-I'm eagerly awaiting its completion. F i l m j o u r n e y . o r g
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