Babel
Pronunciation : Ba"bel
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Heb. Babel, the name of the capital of Babylonia; in Genesis associated with the idea of "confusion"]
Definition : 1. The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place. Therefore is the name of it called Babel. Gen. xi. 9.
2. Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages. That babel of strange heathen languages. Hammond. The grinding babel of the street. R. L. Stevenson.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913