Babel

Ba·bel

Babel

n.
  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.
    The grinding babel of the street.