babel
Ba•bel1 (bā´bəl, bab´əl) n.
[[Heb bavel < Akkadian bābilu, altered (by folk-etym. assoc. with bāb, gate & ili, god) < pre-Akkadian city name babila, Babylon]]
1 Bible a city in Shinar in which Noah's descendants tried to build a very high tower to reach heaven and were prevented by God from doing so by a confusion of tongues: Gen. 11:1-9
2 an impracticable scheme
3 [also b-]
a) any confusion of voices or sounds; tumult
b) a place of such confusion
