Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun babel

2 senses of babel

Sense 1
Tower of Babel, Babel -- ((Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another)
       INSTANCE OF=> ziggurat, zikkurat, zikurat -- (a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians)

Sense 2
babel -- (a confusion of voices and other sounds)
       => confusion -- (an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended; "the confusion of tongues at the Tower of Babel")