Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Babel

Babel ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Hebrew Bābel, the name of the capital of Babylonia; in Genesis associated with the idea of “confusion.”]

1.
The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place.
confusion.
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