Definitions for Babel

Babel Ba·bel

Spelling: [bab-uh l; Russian bah-byil]
IPA: /ˈbæb əl; Russian ˈbɑ byɪl/

Babel is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in Babel (abbel).

Definitions for Babel

noun

  1. Isaak Emmanuilovich [ahy-zuh k;; Russian ee-sahk yi-muh-noo-yee-luh-vyich] /ˈaɪ zək;; Russian iˈsɑk yɪ mə nuˈyi lə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1894–1941, Russian author.
  2. an ancient city in the land of Shinar in which the building of a tower (Tower of Babel) intended to reach heaven was begun and the confusion of the language of the people took place. Gen. 11:4–9.
  3. (usually lowercase) a confused mixture of sounds or voices.
  4. (usually lowercase) a scene of noise and confusion.

Origin of Babel

From the Hebrew word Bābhel Babylon

Examples for Babel

But I recall nothing in Possession, Angels & Insects, Babel Tower, or her other books that seems to presage this one.

This stone was thrown at the sainted Stephen, and the other two are from the Tower of Babel.

We watch Babel beaten, just before his death, in “Lubyanka Prison, Moscow, 1940.”

Between its Babel towers narrow Nassau Street was like a canyon.

"By Babel streams I have sat and wept" almost ever since I wrote you last.

Mumford Sons taking 'a considerable amount of time off' after 'Babel' tour.

Guillermo Arriaga (Babel, 21 Grams, The Burning Plain) employs a nonlinear style.

Marcia entered her mother's sitting-room in the midst of what seemed a Babel of voices.

It could scarcely be heard above the Babel of tongues which was sounding.

Gowan, Donald E. From Eden to Babel: A Commentary on the Book of Genesis 1-11.

Word Value for Babel
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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