0 the confusing sound of many people talking at the same time or using different languages:
a babel of voices
There was a babel of happy conversation which showed that the atmosphere was of the best possible kind.
The result was a positive babel of competing systems—about 300 of them—many of them ill-designed, ill-considered and systematic only in name.
I do not know how my speech can be heard and reported against all this babel.
The dim light, the close air, the babel of voices not only place an intolerable physical and nervous strain upon both teachers and pupils, but they preclude intelligent mental effort.
It would be the ultimate babel.
Babel will undoubtedly build its tower.
The book remarks that, by allowing everyone to understand each other, the babel fish has caused more wars than anything else in the universe.
Henning ultimately began adding neologisms; babel texts; neographies; books on languages, linguistics, and conlanging; and other general resources to his database.
